{"id":1242,"date":"2011-03-24T20:22:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T03:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2011-04-15T11:59:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:59:03","slug":"dark-morph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Rufous morph"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kootenay Lake website\u00a0offers more pictures of local Red-tailed Hawks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spring brings the Red\u2013tailed Hawk to Kootenay Lake. It sits high in trees and intently watches the nearby ground for delectables\u2014especially delectables of the vole persuasion.<\/p>\n

At first, this posting guessed the hawk to be a dark morph. Two knowledgeable birders (Rick Howie, Doug Brown) suggested that it is actually a rufous morph, so the page was amended.<\/p>\n

The Red\u2013tailed Hawk is a tremendously variable looking bird. It comes in\u00a0differently coloured morphs: the fairly common light morph, the rufous (intermediate) morph, the less common dark morph. Over a week ago, I saw a light morph and showed it under the posting Killdeer, Hawk<\/a>. However, today on the North Shore I saw the rufous morph. Compare this bird’s breast with that of the earlier posting. Below is a picture of it in a tree and another of it flying.<\/p>\n

Then, just for the fun of it, I included a picture of a Pied\u2013billed Grebe seen soon afterwards at the Nelson waterfront.<\/p>\n

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And the Pied\u2013billed Grebe.
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The Kootenay Lake website\u00a0offers more pictures of local Red-tailed Hawks. Spring brings the Red\u2013tailed Hawk to Kootenay Lake. It sits high in trees and intently watches the nearby ground for delectables\u2014especially delectables of the vole persuasion. At first, this posting … Continue reading →<\/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-1242","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\/1242","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=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}