{"id":6487,"date":"2012-07-25T07:32:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T11:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2012-07-29T07:04:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T11:04:03","slug":"july-25-2012-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/25\/july-25-2012-3\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120725_Loon-in-your-face.jpg\"><\/a>Close Encounters of the Loon Kind:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Anyone who swims will know it is a solitary experience,\u00a0 lacking scenery\u00a0 (!), with your thoughts as your sole companion.\u00a0 Today however, when I reached my turn-around time, I noticed\u00a0 5\u00a0 (five!) loons curiously watching me from a distance.\u00a0 As I drifted and watched, they came closer until they were at eye level, about 10 feet away! \u00a0 All the while they\u00a0 <em>appeared<\/em> to be floating casually, hooting quietly to each other.\u00a0\u00a0<span> It was a bit eerie (did you know that in territorial wars a loon may attack another loon from underneath, spearing it with its beak?), but\u00a0 absolutely thrilling!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lac Champagneur is a relatively small lake\u00a0 and usually supports one breeding pair of loons.\u00a0 This year, though, there are no chicks, and the lake seems to be hosting a loon convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close Encounters of the Loon Kind:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Anyone who swims will know it is a solitary experience,\u00a0 lacking scenery\u00a0 (!), with your thoughts as your sole companion.\u00a0 Today however, when I reached my turn-around time, I noticed\u00a0 5\u00a0 (five!) loons curiously watching me from a distance.\u00a0 As I drifted and watched, they came closer until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,299,467,479],"tags":[495],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-lac-champagneur","category-summer","category-swimming","tag-common-loon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6518,"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions\/6518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}