{"id":10228,"date":"2014-04-11T15:11:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T22:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10228"},"modified":"2014-04-11T15:11:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T22:11:35","slug":"ruby-crowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10228","title":{"rendered":"Ruby crowned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From a distance, I thought the bush was covered with butterflies. But, they turned out to be Ruby-crowned Kinglets, tiny birds even smaller than chickadees.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10230\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rubycrownedkinglet140411bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These frenetic birds were difficult to photograph as they hardly ever stopped moving.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10229\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rubycrownedkinglet140411cs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Only males show the ruby crown, and even for them it is usually hidden.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10231\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rubycrownedkinglet140411as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From a distance, I thought the bush was covered with butterflies. But, they turned out to be Ruby-crowned Kinglets, tiny birds even smaller than chickadees. These frenetic birds were difficult to photograph as they hardly ever stopped moving. Only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10228\">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-10228","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\/10228","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=10228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10236,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228\/revisions\/10236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}