{"id":17564,"date":"2016-06-14T07:16:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17564"},"modified":"2016-06-14T07:16:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:16:36","slug":"cedar-waxwings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17564","title":{"rendered":"Cedar Waxwings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Locally, we get two species of waxwings: Bohemian Waxwings in the winter; Cedar Waxwings in the summer. Bohemians course about in large flocks (see, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16085\">waxing alliteratively<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16461\">Bohemian Waxwings<\/a>). Cedars are here to breed and so don&#8217;t move about in the same numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The first Cedar Waxwing spotted yesterday was a fledgling. It lacked the silky feathers of an adult.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17567\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/cedarwaxwing160613as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An adult flew in.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17565\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/cedarwaxwing160613cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cedar Waxwings are not seen locally in large flocks, but a few hang out together. Easily seen are the red waxy tips to the wing feathers after which waxwings are named.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17566\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/cedarwaxwing160613bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Locally, we get two species of waxwings: Bohemian Waxwings in the winter; Cedar Waxwings in the summer. Bohemians course about in large flocks (see, waxing alliteratively, Bohemian Waxwings). Cedars are here to breed and so don&#8217;t move about in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17564\">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-17564","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\/17564","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=17564"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17578,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564\/revisions\/17578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}