{"id":26548,"date":"2019-05-18T16:51:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T23:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26548"},"modified":"2019-05-18T16:51:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T23:51:44","slug":"yard-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26548","title":{"rendered":"Yard birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I think of yard birds, I think of robins, Steller&#8217;s Jays, and Song Sparrows. I don&#8217;t think of Mallard chicks and teals.<\/p>\n<p>But, there they were wandering about my front yard.<\/p>\n<p>Mallard chicks explore the grass at the behest of mommy.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26550\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mallard190518s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What the Blue-winged Teal was doing there was unclear.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26549\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/bluewingedteal190515s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When I think of yard birds, I think of robins, Steller&#8217;s Jays, and Song Sparrows. I don&#8217;t think of Mallard chicks and teals. But, there they were wandering about my front yard. Mallard chicks explore the grass at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26548\">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-26548","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\/26548","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=26548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26553,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26548\/revisions\/26553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}