{"id":23361,"date":"2018-05-03T16:55:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T23:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23361"},"modified":"2018-05-03T17:21:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T00:21:42","slug":"red-wing-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23361","title":{"rendered":"Red-wing rivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A year ago (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19909\">Tomfoolery<\/a>), I watched as a female Wild Turkey was viewed with appreciation by two males. However, the two males were so obsessed by a concern for their rival&#8217;s attentions, that neither could attend to the female. It was odd; neither mated with her because each wished to block the other.<\/p>\n<p>This situation seems to have been repeated with Red-winged Blackbirds.<\/p>\n<p>This fetching female Red-winged Blackbird was hanging out in the vicinity of a couple of males.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23362\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/redwingblackbird180430ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are the two male Red-winged Blackbirds. <br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23365\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/redwingblackbird180430as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One male spent its time denouncing the other. <br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23364\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/redwingblackbird180430bs.jpg\" alt=\"v\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It then flew after the (imagined) interloper. But, the conflict meant that neither male mated. Odd.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23363\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/redwingblackbird180430cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A year ago (Tomfoolery), I watched as a female Wild Turkey was viewed with appreciation by two males. However, the two males were so obsessed by a concern for their rival&#8217;s attentions, that neither could attend to the female. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23361\">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-23361","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\/23361","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=23361"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23374,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361\/revisions\/23374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}