{"id":16622,"date":"2016-03-13T13:53:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T20:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16622"},"modified":"2016-03-13T13:53:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T20:53:29","slug":"ruff-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16622","title":{"rendered":"Ruff practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The winter has passed without any of the Ruffed Grouse in my yard displaying their ruffs. Now that the mating season is approaching, a male grouse was seen to flash some of his ruff without ever opening it completely. What seemed half-hearted now should get serious soon when the grouse&#8217;s display is used to both intimidate other males and attract females.<\/p>\n<p>A male Ruffed Grouse shows a bit of its black ruff as if practicing for the forthcoming mating season.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16623\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ruffedgrouse160310s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The winter has passed without any of the Ruffed Grouse in my yard displaying their ruffs. Now that the mating season is approaching, a male grouse was seen to flash some of his ruff without ever opening it completely. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16622\">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-16622","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\/16622","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=16622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16644,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16622\/revisions\/16644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}