{"id":25921,"date":"2019-03-21T07:37:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25921"},"modified":"2019-03-21T07:37:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:37:49","slug":"wandering-grosbeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25921","title":{"rendered":"Wandering Grosbeak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The name given this bird by nineteenth-century settlers, <i>Evening Grosbeak<\/i>, comes from the mistaken belief that it only came out to sing after sundown. Much better is its name in French, <i>le gros-bec errant<\/i>, for it truly is the wandering grosbeak. Both languages agree on its prodigious beak.<\/p>\n<p>It might be seen around here at any time of the year, but only occasionally, for it wanders widely in its search for food. Although seen by others over recent decades, I last saw one eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, I watched a small group of them in some black hawthorn bushes &#8212; a plant that in some seasons provides them with berries.<\/p>\n<p>A female Evening Grosbeak has a subdued colouration of smoky grey with touches of yellow. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25923\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/eveninggrosbeak190317as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The male Evening Grosbeak is much more stridently coloured. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25922\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/eveninggrosbeak190317bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The name given this bird by nineteenth-century settlers, Evening Grosbeak, comes from the mistaken belief that it only came out to sing after sundown. Much better is its name in French, le gros-bec errant, for it truly is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25921\">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-25921","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\/25921","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=25921"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25941,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25921\/revisions\/25941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}