{"id":12041,"date":"2014-11-20T07:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T15:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12041"},"modified":"2014-11-20T07:15:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T15:15:58","slug":"bohemian-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12041","title":{"rendered":"Bohemian invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When a flock of perhaps two hundred Bohemian Waxwings disturbs one&#8217;s nap, you know you have been invaded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bohemian Waxwings used an alder as a staging area from which they repeatedly flew about four metres to a rowan tree (mountain ash). This picture only hints at the many waxwings weighing down the alder branches.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12048\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bohemianwaxwings141118ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The objects of their attentions were the nearby rowan berries, to which they flew in waves.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12049\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bohemianwaxwings141118cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They attacked the berries vociferously.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12050\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bohemianwaxwings141118bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They underwent contortions to grab them from any unlikely perch.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12051\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bohemianwaxwings141118as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Berries were either scarfed on the spot,<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12045\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bohemianwaxwings141118fs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or carried off.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12043\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bohemianwaxwings141118gs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My favourite shot\u00a0was this one of crossed waxwings, each with its prize.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12046\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bohemianwaxwings141118es2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When a flock of perhaps two hundred Bohemian Waxwings disturbs one&#8217;s nap, you know you have been invaded.\u00a0 The Bohemian Waxwings used an alder as a staging area from which they repeatedly flew about four metres to a rowan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12041\">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-12041","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\/12041","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=12041"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12075,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041\/revisions\/12075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}