{"id":9026,"date":"2013-11-07T16:05:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T00:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9026"},"modified":"2013-11-08T17:25:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T01:25:24","slug":"migrant-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9026","title":{"rendered":"Migrant birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Birds that breed to the north and winter to the south, migrate past the Lake at this time of year. Tuesday, I was watching two swans feasting in the shallows off of Kokanee Creek Park, when a flock of Snow Buntings landed between the swans and me. Neither species will be here for long. And then there were the mergansers.<\/p>\n

As we get visits from both Tundra and Trumpeter Swans, it is always a game to try to figure out the species of one seen in the distance. This one looks like a Trumpeter to me.
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Although, its partner (left) looks more like a Tundra. So, I just don’t know.
[Correspondents unanimously say that these are Trumpeter Swans.]
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While I was watching the swans, a large flock of small whitish birds flew in.
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It was a flock of over four-dozen Snow Buntings that landed to feed on the beach during migration.
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Having exhausted one spot, the flock would abruptly take off and fly along the beach to another.
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In the midst of all of this, a flock of Common Mergansers flew by. While many mergansers are permanent residents, these were probably migrants passing through from farther north.
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