{"id":26709,"date":"2019-06-11T15:46:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T22:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26709"},"modified":"2019-11-16T10:12:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T18:12:16","slug":"spotty-scraping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26709","title":{"rendered":"Spotty scrapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spotted Sandpipers are somewhat unusual for they have a sexual role reversal: Males are largely passive; Females are territorial, sexually aggressive, and promiscuous. Previous years, I have captured scenes of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20585\">sexual aggression<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13806\">mating<\/a>. I now seem to have recorded rival females fighting over territory.<\/p>\n<p>The observations began sweetly enough: Two spotties copulated at the the water&#8217;s edge.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26713\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/spottedsandpiper190610cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Upon completion, each bird flew maybe six metres along the beach where there was another Spotted Sandpiper. But, their similarity meant that it wasn&#8217;t possible to tell which was which.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26710\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/spottedsandpiper190610fs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Promptly a fight began when one bird grabbed the other by the bill. Given recorded spotty behaviour, both are almost certainly females.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26711\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/spottedsandpiper190610es2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fight carried on in the air,\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26716\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/spottedsandpiper190610gs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>on the beach,\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26712\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/spottedsandpiper190610ds2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and a mixture of beach and air.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26714\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/spottedsandpiper190610bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which bird prevailed is unclear, but one of them was eventually driven off.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26715\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/spottedsandpiper190610as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Spotted Sandpipers are somewhat unusual for they have a sexual role reversal: Males are largely passive; Females are territorial, sexually aggressive, and promiscuous. Previous years, I have captured scenes of sexual aggression, and mating. I now seem to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26709\">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-26709","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\/26709","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=26709"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27750,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26709\/revisions\/27750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}