{"id":1282,"date":"2011-03-28T23:15:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T06:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2011-03-29T22:17:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T05:17:14","slug":"resident-grouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"Residential grouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; margin-top: 4px; margin-left: 4px; width: 270px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">This same grouse has appeared in this blog before as <a title=\"Perfect camouflage\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=573\">Perfect camouflage<\/a>. There is also a page on the Kootenay Lake website about local <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/birds\/fowl\/grouse\/index.html\">grouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think I have a grouse in residence. I have seen a Ruffed Grouse beside my driveway, in my yard, and even in my trees quite a few times over the last few years and increasingly in the last few months. I am told that an individual grouse needs a space of only a few hectares\u2014it seems that part of this one\u2019s range includes my yard. Well, superb.<\/p>\n<p>Below are two pictures of it this evening. It seemed to ignore (or possibly merely tolerate) me. It wandered around in front of me and even stopped to forage as I clicked away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1283\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ruffedgrouse110328bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1294\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ruffedgrouse110328as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This same grouse has appeared in this blog before as Perfect camouflage. There is also a page on the Kootenay Lake website about local grouse. I think I have a grouse in residence. I have seen a Ruffed Grouse beside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1282\">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-1282","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\/1282","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=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}