{"id":1015,"date":"2011-02-25T12:19:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T20:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2011-02-25T12:19:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T20:19:51","slug":"emboldened-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"Emboldened birds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steller\u2019s Jays held virtually an exclusive reign over my feeder until the temperature plummeted (see, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=942\">Strictly Steller\u2019s<\/a>). The Jays are still around, but with this morning\u2019s temperature of -15\u00b0C, two other species visited: a Varied Thrush and a Red-breasted Nuthatch (below).<\/p>\n<p>So, the question is: could it have been the chilly conditions that embolden them to seek food from the feeder?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1016\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/variedthrush110225s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1017\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/nuthatch110225s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steller\u2019s Jays held virtually an exclusive reign over my feeder until the temperature plummeted (see, Strictly Steller\u2019s). The Jays are still around, but with this morning\u2019s temperature of -15\u00b0C, two other species visited: a Varied Thrush and a Red-breasted Nuthatch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1015\">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-1015","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\/1015","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=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}