{"id":9342,"date":"2013-12-16T16:59:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T00:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9342"},"modified":"2013-12-16T18:55:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T02:55:57","slug":"flying-underwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9342","title":{"rendered":"Flying under water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have long sought a clear view of a dipper hunting under water. Alas, repeated attempts proved unsuccessful. There was no reason to think that today would be any different.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, the temperature had risen; the <a title=\"Anchor ice\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9240\">anchor ice<\/a>\u00a0was gone; and the dippers were back patrolling the turbulent portions of the creek which only a week earlier had been beyond reach. Now, the dipper&#8217;s restored access, some propitious perspectives, and good lighting\u00a0allowed a previously eluded view.<\/p>\n<p>The successful shot shows a dipper flying under water as it hunts in a manner almost identical to that used by other birds that hunt in the air: wings out and head down as it scours the surface below.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9345\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dipper131216as2.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have long sought a clear view of a dipper hunting under water. Alas, repeated attempts proved unsuccessful. There was no reason to think that today would be any different.\u00a0 Certainly, the temperature had risen; the anchor ice\u00a0was gone; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9342\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9342"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9352,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342\/revisions\/9352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}