{"id":19264,"date":"2016-12-31T18:01:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T02:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19264"},"modified":"2016-12-31T18:01:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T02:01:52","slug":"orange-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19264","title":{"rendered":"Orange in winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I went birding today\u00a0— well animal-ing, for I also saw an otter. While I photographed\u00a0many species of birds, it wasn’t until I returned to the comfort of my home that I managed a\u00a0good shot, and that was taken — gulp — looking through\u00a0a window.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Varied Thrush is a skittish bird. While it is related to the robin, it lacks the robin’s\u00a0sangfroid and will bolt at the slightest perceived threat, which it interprets as\u00a0the sight of anything at all. Consequently, the best pictures of it I have ever managed have been taken using\u00a0my home or car as a blind.<\/p>\n

The Varied Thrush, a striking bird in black and orange, is a contrast to our monochromatic winter.
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  I went birding today\u00a0— well animal-ing, for I also saw an otter. While I photographed\u00a0many species of birds, it wasn’t until I returned to the comfort of my home that I managed a\u00a0good shot, and that was taken — … Continue reading →<\/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-19264","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\/19264","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=19264"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19271,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19264\/revisions\/19271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}