{"id":3004,"date":"2023-04-27T08:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=3004"},"modified":"2023-04-27T08:26:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:26:15","slug":"floating-down-the-river-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2023\/04\/27\/floating-down-the-river-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating Down the River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmousedown=\"alert('Sorry ... you will need to contact me if you wish to use this photo')\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/photosbydennis\/image\/173573564\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly that time of year\u2026everything is beginning to return.<br \/>\nEven though the river has yet to crest here in Winnipeg, Pelicans now can easily be found since the ice is gone.<br \/>\nBoth male and female develop a bump on their beaks during breeding season\u2026this bump falls off after the birds have mated and laid eggs. <\/p>\n<p>The American White Pelican can be found across the Prairie Provinces and migrate South as far as Texas and Mexico in the Winter months.<br \/>\nI had always thought up un-till a few years ago that they were found across Canada\u2026apparently not.<br \/>\nBeing informed by a friend in Montreal that they only have Brown Pelicans\u2026although there has been the odd White Pelican show up in the area.<\/p>\n<p>By the look of things fishing is good on the Red River\u2026clearly this Pelican has caught a good sized fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s certainly that time of year\u2026everything is beginning to return. Even though the river has yet to crest here in Winnipeg, Pelicans now can easily be found since the ice is gone. Both male and female develop a bump on their beaks during breeding season\u2026this bump falls off after the birds have mated and laid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-birds","tag-american-white-pelican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}