{"id":26823,"date":"2019-07-03T07:05:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T14:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26823"},"modified":"2019-07-03T07:05:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T14:05:22","slug":"unrequited-yellowthroat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26823","title":{"rendered":"Unrequited yellowthroat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Common Yellowthroat is a warm-season warbler that is found in our patchy fields and wetlands. It feeds and breeds locally.<\/p>\n<p>I encountered a canoodling couple in some wetlands. Each hung around the other bearing a grub to offer a potential mate. Yellowthroat protocol requires that the male follows the female until she flutters her wings as a signal that she\u2019s ready to mate. Yet, while each bird paid close attention to the other, she never gave the signal.<\/p>\n<p>Each Common Yellowthroat (female on wire, male flying up) brings a grub to offer the other. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26824\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/commonyellowthroat190629ds2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The two of them seem to compare their grub offerings, but to no effect. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26828\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/commonyellowthroat190629es.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They got together at various places along the wires of a fence.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26825\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/commonyellowthroat190629cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But, she ultimately took her grubs and went off on her own.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26826\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/commonyellowthroat190629bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And he abandoned the quest &#8212; for now.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26827\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/commonyellowthroat190629as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Common Yellowthroat is a warm-season warbler that is found in our patchy fields and wetlands. It feeds and breeds locally. I encountered a canoodling couple in some wetlands. Each hung around the other bearing a grub to offer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26823\">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-26823","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\/26823","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=26823"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26870,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823\/revisions\/26870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}