{"id":16437,"date":"2016-02-20T14:52:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T22:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16437"},"modified":"2016-02-20T14:52:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T22:52:59","slug":"downy-ear-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16437","title":{"rendered":"Downy ear &#038; tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Downy Woodpecker is the smallest woodpecker in North America, a feature that gives it an advantage in the access of some bugs. That this one is a male is evident from the red patch on its head.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16441\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/downywoodpecker160219as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When hunting for beetle grubs eating old wood, the downy often listens for them. At this time of year, I suspect that the listening tactic works best during the warmth of midday when its prey would be most active.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16438\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/downywoodpecker160219ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having heard activity and bored into the wood with its bill, the downy extends its sticky tongue to snare its prey. In this picture, the woodpecker&#8217;s tongue is the beige object extending from the short dark bill.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16440\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/downywoodpecker160219bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Soon the downy is off to scour another tree (as seen in this composite).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16439\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/downywoodpecker160219cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Downy Woodpecker is the smallest woodpecker in North America, a feature that gives it an advantage in the access of some bugs. That this one is a male is evident from the red patch on its head. When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16437\">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-16437","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\/16437","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=16437"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16446,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16437\/revisions\/16446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}