{"id":15893,"date":"2015-12-17T14:46:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T22:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15893"},"modified":"2015-12-17T14:46:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T22:46:38","slug":"rudolphs-apprentice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15893","title":{"rendered":"Rudolph&#8217;s apprentice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have seen few birds around of late. While\u00a0the geese remain\u00a0plentiful, ravens seem sparse. Even trees with red berries seem to get few visitors. However, a few did come.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Pine Grosbeak female feasting on rowan berries. I waited for more to turn up; they did not.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15896\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pinegrosbeak151215s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Townsend&#8217;s Solitaire was helping itself to some berries from a unknown cultivar.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15895\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/townsedssolitaire151217as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could lead a sleigh.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15894\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/townsedssolitaire151217bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have seen few birds around of late. While\u00a0the geese remain\u00a0plentiful, ravens seem sparse. Even trees with red berries seem to get few visitors. However, a few did come. This is a Pine Grosbeak female feasting on rowan berries. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15893\">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-15893","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\/15893","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=15893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15902,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions\/15902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}