{"id":22806,"date":"2018-02-20T16:30:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T00:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22806"},"modified":"2018-02-20T16:30:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T00:30:40","slug":"irruptives-here-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22806","title":{"rendered":"Irruptives here still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This winter started with visiting irruptive birds: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22321\">Irruptive meets invasive (2017\/11\/20)<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22430\">Irruptive winter? (2017\/12\/4)<\/a>. The earliest arrivals were Common Redpolls and Pine Grosbeaks. Many irruptives are still here.<\/p>\n<p>An irruptive is an arctic species that may or may not search for food locally in any particular year. Sometimes they appear; sometimes they do not.<\/p>\n<p>Now, three months after these early winter observations, the area still boasts irruptive species.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the Pine Grosbeak arrives in great numbers, but this year brought only a few. This female is feeding on waxberries. <br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22810\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pinegrosbeak180206as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not seen early in the winter, Bohemian Waxwings have now arrived in numbers.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22808\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/bohemianwaxwings180128sdmf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Bohemian Waxwing is a beautiful bird with a crest and a yellow tipped tail.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22809\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/bohemianwaxwings180206as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This winter started with visiting irruptive birds: Irruptive meets invasive (2017\/11\/20); Irruptive winter? (2017\/12\/4). The earliest arrivals were Common Redpolls and Pine Grosbeaks. Many irruptives are still here. An irruptive is an arctic species that may or may not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22806\">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-22806","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\/22806","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=22806"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22822,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22806\/revisions\/22822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}