{"id":23178,"date":"2018-03-28T15:39:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T22:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23178"},"modified":"2018-03-29T07:44:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T14:44:04","slug":"grouse-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23178","title":{"rendered":"Grouse display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23128\">female Ruffed Grouse<\/a> in my yard were standing nearby while watching another: a male in display. He had erected his eponymous ruff, the long black feathers on his neck, and had spread his tail feathers to form a fan.<\/p>\n<p>The message was clear: &#8220;I want you, baby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23179\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ruffedgrouse180328s3.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Two female Ruffed Grouse in my yard were standing nearby while watching another: a male in display. He had erected his eponymous ruff, the long black feathers on his neck, and had spread his tail feathers to form a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23178\">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-23178","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\/23178","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=23178"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23191,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23178\/revisions\/23191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}