{"id":26074,"date":"2019-04-03T08:26:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T15:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26074"},"modified":"2019-04-05T01:18:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T08:18:40","slug":"magpie-packing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26074","title":{"rendered":"Magpie packing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Black-billed Magpie is a fairly common bird of western North America. However, as it prefers open habitats with only clumps of trees, it is somewhat of a rarity in our heavily forested region. As a result, it is a delight to encounter.<\/p>\n<p>A magpie flew past carrying a lumpy something in its bill &#8212; but what is it? The magpie is an omnivore, so it is just unclear whether its prize is animal or vegetable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the magpie&#8217;s comestible is indeterminate, one feature is obvious from this side view: the magpie&#8217;s unusual tail makes up more than half its body length. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26075\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/magpie190330s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\nCountdown: 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Black-billed Magpie is a fairly common bird of western North America. However, as it prefers open habitats with only clumps of trees, it is somewhat of a rarity in our heavily forested region. As a result, it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26074\">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-26074","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\/26074","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=26074"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26081,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26074\/revisions\/26081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}