{"id":19078,"date":"2016-12-11T15:26:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T23:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19078"},"modified":"2016-12-12T08:49:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T16:49:51","slug":"danse-macabre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19078","title":{"rendered":"Danse macabre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In &#8230; Mount Revelstoke Park, mortality of siskins and other winter finches &#8230; has been seen frequently enough over the last 25 years that they are called \u201cgrill birds\u201d by the local inhabitants, in reference to their propensity to be collected by the front end of moving vehicles. &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/iceandsnowtechnologies.com\/articles\/WildlifeSD.pdf\"><em>http:\/\/iceandsnowtechnologies.com\/articles\/WildlifeSD.pdf<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When I saw hundreds of Pine Siskins feeding on highway salt, I knew some would become grill birds.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19082\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/siskin161211bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a vehicle approached, the siskins would take to the air.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19079\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/siskin161211ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But, depending upon the speed and size of the vehicle (which never slowed) the grill collected some.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19081\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/siskin161211fsDMF.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No problem, the rest alighted again, sometimes continuing to feed amongst their fallen colleagues.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19080\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/siskin161211es.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In exchange for road salt, we happily do the danse macabre.&#8221;<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19083\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/siskin161211as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In &#8230; Mount Revelstoke Park, mortality of siskins and other winter finches &#8230; has been seen frequently enough over the last 25 years that they are called \u201cgrill birds\u201d by the local inhabitants, in reference to their propensity to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19078\">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-19078","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\/19078","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=19078"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19103,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19078\/revisions\/19103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}