{"id":12842,"date":"2015-03-07T10:10:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T18:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12842"},"modified":"2015-03-07T10:26:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T18:26:29","slug":"red-winged-blackbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12842","title":{"rendered":"Red-winged Blackbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although the Red-winged Blackbird is abundant through much of North America, it is not all that common around Kootenay Lake. The fields and marshes\u00a0this bird prefers are in short supply around the heavily forested lakeshore&#8212;except, at the south end of the Main Lake where large flocks were seen this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A flock of\u00a0Red-winged Blackbirds forages in a field. They are readily identified by their coloured epaulettes.\u00a0<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12846\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redwingedblackbird150305bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The males\u00a0like to perch on poles and reeds and display their red and yellow epaulettes. That this male is\u00a0immature is evident from the orange edges on its otherwise black feathers.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12845\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redwingedblackbird150305cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The female Red-winged Blackbird not only has better camouflage colours, but attempts to stay hidden.\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12844\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redwingedblackbird150305ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The raucous posturing of the males makes them an inviting subject for photographers. <br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12847\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redwingedblackbird150305as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Although the Red-winged Blackbird is abundant through much of North America, it is not all that common around Kootenay Lake. The fields and marshes\u00a0this bird prefers are in short supply around the heavily forested lakeshore&#8212;except, at the south end &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12842\">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-12842","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\/12842","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=12842"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12858,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12842\/revisions\/12858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}