{"id":11033,"date":"2014-07-08T08:03:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T15:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11033"},"modified":"2014-07-08T08:05:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T15:05:01","slug":"high-altitude-finch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11033","title":{"rendered":"High-altitude finch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11034\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/condpk140705sDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Grey-crowned Rosy Finch is not a bird that is often seen, at least not by valley dwellers. It breeds high in the mountains,\u00a0usually in the vicinity of permanent snowfields.<\/p>\n<p>So it was that on hike up to the\u00a0Kokanee Glacier last Saturday, Doug Thorburn photographed\u00a0one and noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">I didn&#8217;t get to spot a nest, but I could hear them<br \/>feeding young somewhere nearby.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11035\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/graycrownedrosyfinch140705sDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; clear: all;\">Doug Thorburn&#8217;s pictures are used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Grey-crowned Rosy Finch is not a bird that is often seen, at least not by valley dwellers. It breeds high in the mountains,\u00a0usually in the vicinity of permanent snowfields. So it was that on hike up to the\u00a0Kokanee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11033\">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-11033","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\/11033","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=11033"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11050,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11033\/revisions\/11050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}