{"id":1985,"date":"2018-02-14T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T19:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2018-03-26T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:30:00","slug":"winter-swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/winter-swans\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Swans!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard from the La Crosse Audubon group that there are four trumpeter swans in Perrot S.P, and 16 in the Whitewater Wildlife management area. ( Open water on the north side of 74, before you hit the pavement coming from Weaver.) Waterfowl are certainly creatures of habit, but, they aren&#8217;t pinned down! So keep your eyes open!<br \/>\nThank you for the heads up, Pat Schmidt!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2632865458600424\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"2735776919\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Images below and in header are found at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trumpeterswansociety.org\/swan-identification.html\"> Trumpeter Swan<\/a> society site.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6766D7B9-E03E-4AD0-8800-8BD68A0249B6-6632-000006C6A857921C-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"6766D7B9-E03E-4AD0-8800-8BD68A0249B6-6632-000006C6A857921C\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6766D7B9-E03E-4AD0-8800-8BD68A0249B6-6632-000006C6A857921C-300x199.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6766D7B9-E03E-4AD0-8800-8BD68A0249B6-6632-000006C6A857921C.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 Trumpeter<\/p>\n<p>The Trumpeter is a huge bird, with a wingspread up to 10 feet! But notice the very black bill which makes an almost perfect triangle and stretches right to the eye.<\/p>\n<p>The society offers a detailed identification guide free if you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trumpeterswansociety.org\/docs\/TTSS%20Swan%20Goose%20IDcolor.pdf\">CLICK HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1990\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/D1045F73-408E-4790-84F9-8E2029A264C4-6632-000006C6C0F1FCE8-300x244.jpeg\" alt=\"D1045F73-408E-4790-84F9-8E2029A264C4-6632-000006C6C0F1FCE8\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/D1045F73-408E-4790-84F9-8E2029A264C4-6632-000006C6C0F1FCE8-300x244.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/D1045F73-408E-4790-84F9-8E2029A264C4-6632-000006C6C0F1FCE8-369x300.jpeg 369w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/D1045F73-408E-4790-84F9-8E2029A264C4-6632-000006C6C0F1FCE8.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 Tundra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard from the La Crosse Audubon group that there are four trumpeter swans in Perrot S.P, and 16 in the Whitewater Wildlife management area. ( Open water on the north side of 74, before you hit the pavement &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/winter-swans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-uncategorized","category-upper-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}