{"id":16085,"date":"2016-01-03T16:26:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T00:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16085"},"modified":"2016-01-03T19:24:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T03:24:42","slug":"waxing-alliteratively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16085","title":{"rendered":"Waxing alliteratively"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was a most elegant symphony of\u00a0visual\u00a0alliteration:\u00a0waxwings wolfing\u00a0waxberries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A flock of many dozen Bohemian Waxwings landed on a staging tree above a bank covered with rose hips and waxberries (aka, snowberries). They flew in waves to the waxberries, but ignored the rose hips. They plucked berries from\u00a0bushes and fallen ones from\u00a0the snow. They then flew back to the staging tree to eat\u00a0their prizes while the next wave of birds flew in.<\/p>\n

I have watched mammals<\/a> and wild turkeys<\/a> eat these berries, but the sight of waxwings doing so was particularly appealing to my sense of linguistic symmetry.<\/p>\n

A waxwing has scrounged\u00a0a barely\u00a0discernible snow-covered waxberry from\u00a0the snow pack.
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A waxwing returns\u00a0to the staging tree to eat\u00a0its prize. The name, waxwing, comes from the the waxy red shafts of some its wing feathers. These red shafts\u00a0are easily seen in these pictures.
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Having plucked a waxberry from the bush, some waxwings then had to navigate branches.
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  It was a most elegant symphony of\u00a0visual\u00a0alliteration:\u00a0waxwings wolfing\u00a0waxberries.\u00a0 A flock of many dozen Bohemian Waxwings landed on a staging tree above a bank covered with rose hips and waxberries (aka, snowberries). They flew in waves to the waxberries, but … Continue reading →<\/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":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16085","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=16085"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16114,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16085\/revisions\/16114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}