{"id":10404,"date":"2014-04-29T17:32:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T00:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10404"},"modified":"2014-05-03T15:25:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T22:25:02","slug":"dusky-grouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10404","title":{"rendered":"Dusky Grouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have never seen a Dusky Grouse. Doug Thorburn has and he sent me these pictures of a male displaying on the mountain slopes above Nelson last Sunday. It is a sight that rivals the display of the <a title=\"Turkey unrequited\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10197\">Wild Turkey<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is the male doing his song and dance to impress a female. At the moment he is showing a red eyebrow.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10408\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/duskygrouse140427asDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Moments later, his eyebrows are yellow&#8212;a fine transition.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10407\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/duskygrouse140427bsDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This female is\u00a0the object of his affection.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10406\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/duskygrouse140427csDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How could she ever resist such a visage?<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10405\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/duskygrouse140427dsDT.jpg\" alt=\"\"  onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\"width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Doug Thorburn&#8217;s images are used with permission.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have never seen a Dusky Grouse. Doug Thorburn has and he sent me these pictures of a male displaying on the mountain slopes above Nelson last Sunday. It is a sight that rivals the display of the Wild &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10404\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-10404","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\/10404","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=10404"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10447,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions\/10447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}