{"id":13978,"date":"2015-06-20T07:48:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T14:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13978"},"modified":"2015-06-20T07:48:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T14:48:17","slug":"clarks-nutcracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13978","title":{"rendered":"Clark&#8217;s Nutcracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Clark&#8217;s Nutcrackers are occasionally seen at lake level, they prefer subalpine forests where they (mainly) eat the seeds found in the cones of evergreens. I wouldn&#8217;t have known where to look, but Derek Kite drove\u00a0me twenty kilometres up a steep logging road and, after seeing nothing along the way, nutcrackers appeared in a clearcut at an altitude of about 1700 metres. There were dozens of them feasting and flying from tree to tree.<\/p>\n<p>Usually seen at a distance, this nutcracker came close enough for a portrait.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13981\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nutcracker150618bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Never on one perch for long, each bird soon flies off.<br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13979\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nutcracker150618ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nutcrackers are monogamous and the relationship even involves mutual feeding.<br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13980\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nutcracker150618cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The nutcracker&#8217;s diet even extends to small mammals. <br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13982\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nutcracker150618as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; While Clark&#8217;s Nutcrackers are occasionally seen at lake level, they prefer subalpine forests where they (mainly) eat the seeds found in the cones of evergreens. I wouldn&#8217;t have known where to look, but Derek Kite drove\u00a0me twenty kilometres up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13978\">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":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978","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=13978"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13995,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions\/13995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}