{"id":19393,"date":"2017-01-21T07:53:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19393"},"modified":"2017-01-21T09:20:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T17:20:37","slug":"two-grouse-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19393","title":{"rendered":"Two-grouse day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, my backyard thermometer rose to +5\u00b0 C for the first time in over a month. And with the warmth, Ruffed Grouse reappeared &#8212; two of them seen over 3 km apart.<\/p>\n<p>The first grouse sat motionless in the bush and appeared to be a log butt showing its grain.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19395\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ruffedgrouse170120s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second grouse\u00a0didn&#8217;t feel any need to hide. It brazenly crossed my path confident that its plumage offered camouflage even in snow. It seems destined to make some coyote very happy. <br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19394\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ruffedgrouse170120as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Yesterday, my backyard thermometer rose to +5\u00b0 C for the first time in over a month. And with the warmth, Ruffed Grouse reappeared &#8212; two of them seen over 3 km apart. The first grouse sat motionless in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19393\">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-19393","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\/19393","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=19393"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19431,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393\/revisions\/19431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}