{"id":16461,"date":"2016-02-29T13:43:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T21:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16461"},"modified":"2016-03-01T04:26:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T12:26:15","slug":"bohemian-waxwings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16461","title":{"rendered":"Bohemian Waxwings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Bohemian Waxwing is an ephemeral delight. It forages\u00a0in large winter flocks that briefly visit some berries only to then vanish from sight for weeks. It is two months since I last managed images. At that earlier time there was snow on the ground and the birds were eating waxberries (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16085\">waxing alliteratively<\/a>).\u00a0This time, a flock of perhaps two hundred, focused attention on rowan berries (mountain ash).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The flock picked a staging tree (cedar, in this case) from which it would fly to the berries in waves.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16462\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/waxwing160228cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These birds can be\u00a0remarkably acrobatic as they avoid branches and each other.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16463\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/waxwing160228ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pleasure in observing comes from\u00a0the antics, the forms and the colours. The white streaks are from a light rain.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16465\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/waxwing160228as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got mine.&#8221;<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16464\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/waxwing160228bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Bohemian Waxwing is an ephemeral delight. It forages\u00a0in large winter flocks that briefly visit some berries only to then vanish from sight for weeks. It is two months since I last managed images. At that earlier time there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16461\">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-16461","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\/16461","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=16461"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16480,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16461\/revisions\/16480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}