{"id":15904,"date":"2015-12-20T10:46:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T18:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15904"},"modified":"2015-12-20T20:29:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T04:29:23","slug":"redpoll-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15904","title":{"rendered":"Redpoll poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Common Redpoll is a finch of the Arctic tundra that now and then comes south in the winter to feed. I previously saw them nearly four years ago. I start with a picture from then which enables me to poll both redpoll frequency and evolving image quality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I wondered what was the relationship between the words <em>redpoll<\/em> and <em>poll<\/em> (as in, take a). Poll is a middle English word meaning head. That accounts for the name of a bird with a red crown. The modern use of the word, poll, comes from the idea of a head count.<\/p>\n<p>A Common Redpoll forages for seeds on January 27, 2012. Obtaining a good picture of such a frenetic bird is always a matter of happenstance, but clearly this image is not as detailed as are yesterday&#8217;s, below.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15905\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/redpoll120127as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"721\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is one of three\u00a0female redpolls seen yesterday. The out-of-focus background is lakeshore snow and water. I wonder if this will prove a good winter for seeing redpolls.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15906\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/redpoll151219as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a detail of the red poll of a redpoll.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15907\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/redpoll151219bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m outa here.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15908\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/redpoll151219cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Common Redpoll is a finch of the Arctic tundra that now and then comes south in the winter to feed. I previously saw them nearly four years ago. I start with a picture from then which enables me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15904\">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-15904","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\/15904","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=15904"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15942,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15904\/revisions\/15942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}