{"id":20297,"date":"2017-04-29T07:39:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T14:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20297"},"modified":"2017-04-29T07:39:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T14:39:49","slug":"black-white-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20297","title":{"rendered":"Black &#038; white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 2px 4px 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: -16px; margin-left: 8px; width: 300px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\"><strong>Forestation and colour<\/strong>: Last year&#8217;s posting illustrated both local habitat and dorsal colouring: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16984\">magpie preferences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Magpies prefer\u00a0open country with a sprinkling of trees. This makes them distinctly uncommon in the heavily forested lands around the Lake. While on a walk, it was unexpected for me to encounter\u00a0a group of perhaps a dozen Black-billed Magpies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recording pictures of perched magpies\u00a0was easy; capturing a picture of one\u00a0flying far from a perch proved to be more difficult. This is the best I managed.<\/p>\n<p>The ventral surface of a flying magpie is a study in black and white.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20298\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/magpie170428as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Forestation and colour: Last year&#8217;s posting illustrated both local habitat and dorsal colouring: magpie preferences. Magpies prefer\u00a0open country with a sprinkling of trees. This makes them distinctly uncommon in the heavily forested lands around the Lake. While on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20297\">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-20297","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\/20297","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=20297"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20324,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20297\/revisions\/20324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}