{"id":17202,"date":"2016-05-22T10:06:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T17:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17202"},"modified":"2016-05-23T07:28:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:28:25","slug":"supplying-chick-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17202","title":{"rendered":"Supplying chick food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 2px 4px 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: -56px; margin-left: 8px; width: 360px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\"><strong>Sigh&#8230;.<\/strong> This is my first posting in nearly a week. My blog was hacked by sleaze merchants, and for an hour was promoting junk pharmaceuticals before I took everything offline. It required a professional to muck out the barn.<\/p>\n<p>It is a full time job to raise chicks. Robins are constantly out foraging for food to take back to the nest: worms, insects, sometimes both.<\/p>\n<p>A male robin scoured a lawn and captured a Large Yellow Underwing Moth (<em>Noctua pronuba<\/em>).<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17205\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/robin160519bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It then spotted a worm and tried repeatedly before it succeeded in picking both up at once to carry back to its chicks. The nest was not far away, so why didn&#8217;t it just make two trips? It probably feared that the other robins on the lawn would grab the worm while it was away.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17204\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/robin160519cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not everything is saved for the chicks. It&#8217;s nice to snack while working.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17203\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/robin160519ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sigh&#8230;. This is my first posting in nearly a week. My blog was hacked by sleaze merchants, and for an hour was promoting junk pharmaceuticals before I took everything offline. It required a professional to muck out the barn. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17202\">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":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17202","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=17202"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17226,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17202\/revisions\/17226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}