{"id":9867,"date":"2014-02-23T11:24:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T19:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9867"},"modified":"2014-02-23T18:03:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T02:03:14","slug":"trumpeter-swans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9867","title":{"rendered":"Trumpeter Swans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the lake level drops in the spring the Swans are attracted to underwater vegetation that they can reach with their long necks. So we see them at various locations on the West Arm and the Kootenay River.<\/p>\n<p>A group of 8 swans, 7 adults with one cygnet were near the old Taghum bridge.<br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9869\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMGP1335.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9870\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMGP1253.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9872\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMGP1449.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cygnet needed to spread it&#8217;s wings to get up onto the ice<br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9874\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMGP1048.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As the lake level drops in the spring the Swans are attracted to underwater vegetation that they can reach with their long necks. So we see them at various locations on the West Arm and the Kootenay River. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-9867","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\/9867","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9867"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9984,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions\/9984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}