{"id":15101,"date":"2015-10-01T08:06:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15101"},"modified":"2015-10-01T08:06:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:06:03","slug":"dusky-grouse-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15101","title":{"rendered":"Dusky Grouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I live in the valley and the only grouse I see in my yard is a Ruffed Grouse: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1282\">residential grouse<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9835\">replacement grouse<\/a>. To increase the\u00a0odds of seeing a Dusky Grouse, I visit the high country.<\/p>\n<p>Although breeding season is over, a male Dusky Grouse seems to be showing off for the ladies.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15106\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/duskygrouse150924as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A female demonstrates the advantage of cryptic plumage: When distant and stationary, she just vanishes.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15105\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/duskygrouse150924bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe I speak for game birds everywhere in thanking you for choosing a camera for your shooting.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15102\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/duskygrouse150924cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I live in the valley and the only grouse I see in my yard is a Ruffed Grouse: residential grouse, replacement grouse. To increase the\u00a0odds of seeing a Dusky Grouse, I visit the high country. Although breeding season is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15101\">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-15101","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\/15101","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=15101"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15117,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15101\/revisions\/15117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}