{"id":13543,"date":"2015-05-10T07:45:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T14:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13543"},"modified":"2015-05-10T07:45:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T14:45:02","slug":"dipper-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13543","title":{"rendered":"Dipper chicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, I showed pictures of a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13363\">dipper nest<\/a> under a bridge. One shot showed the male feeding the female in the nest. The chicks have now hatched, which makes this a busy Mother&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Three hungry maws beg at the nest&#8217;s opening.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13546\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dipper150508as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The brightly coloured gapes and mandibles of the chicks are believed to be a signal to and a target for the parents: Insert food here. The adult lacks this\u00a0colouration (see the earlier posting).\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13545\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dipper150508bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The adult obliges. Here it is carrying a grub in its bill and is about to insert it in the chick&#8217;s mouth. This goes on all day as both parents ferry food to their voracious progeny.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13544\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dipper150508cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Two weeks ago, I showed pictures of a dipper nest under a bridge. One shot showed the male feeding the female in the nest. The chicks have now hatched, which makes this a busy Mother&#8217;s Day. Three hungry maws &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13543\">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-13543","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\/13543","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=13543"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13554,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543\/revisions\/13554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}