{"id":10197,"date":"2014-04-10T07:14:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T14:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10197"},"modified":"2014-04-10T10:04:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T17:04:22","slug":"turkey-unrequited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10197","title":{"rendered":"Turkey unrequited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For those who gain their insights into the natural world from seasonal decorations, Christmas trees are uniformly conical, snow crystals are always stellar, and turkeys display in the fall just in time to be decapitated for the Thanksgiving table. The other nonsense aside, spring is when Wild Turkeys display and strut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time I have witnessed this ostentation.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10199\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wildturkey140408bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The display was from a lone tom wandering amongst a couple of dozen hens. He would trot over to one group and they would turn away and carry on snacking. He would then try another group with the same depressing result.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10198\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wildturkey140408cs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Somehow the whole scene was mildly reminiscent of the awkwardness\u00a0of a junior-high dance. I sympathized.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10200\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wildturkey140408as2.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For those who gain their insights into the natural world from seasonal decorations, Christmas trees are uniformly conical, snow crystals are always stellar, and turkeys display in the fall just in time to be decapitated for the Thanksgiving table. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10197\">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-10197","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\/10197","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=10197"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10224,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10197\/revisions\/10224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}