{"id":27689,"date":"2019-11-14T06:04:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T14:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27689"},"modified":"2019-11-14T06:52:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T14:52:23","slug":"precocious-goldeneyes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27689","title":{"rendered":"Precocious goldeneyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Audubon Society tells us that Barrow&#8217;s Goldeneyes are &#8220;found mainly in wild country of northwestern North America&#8221;. Chuckle, as the Barrow&#8217;s is fairly common here, apparently Audubon&#8217;s boffins suspect we lack roads.<\/p>\n<p>An obviously bonded pair of Barrow&#8217;s Goldeneyes travelled together along the waterfront.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27690\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/barrowsgoldeneye191113as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At one point he approached her using a courting display of pumping his head. It is not yet mid-November, yet Cornell&#8217;s allaboutbirds.org insists that &#8220;males begin courtship&#8221; in December.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27692\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/barrowsgoldeneye191113bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Soon afterwards, he was on her pulling himself in to mate by tugging on her head. Although it is not yet winter, allaboutbirds.org also tells us that &#8220;winter [occurs] well before breeding season&#8221;. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27695\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/barrowsgoldeneye191113cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After consummation, he seemed reluctant to let her go, and continued to hold her. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27694\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/barrowsgoldeneye191113ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They separated, but did not part. These birds chose to make love rather than follow the manual.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27693\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/barrowsgoldeneye191113es.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 Audubon Society tells us that Barrow&#8217;s Goldeneyes are &#8220;found mainly in wild country of northwestern North America&#8221;. Chuckle, as the Barrow&#8217;s is fairly common here, apparently Audubon&#8217;s boffins suspect we lack roads. An obviously bonded pair of Barrow&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27689\">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-27689","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\/27689","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=27689"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27727,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27689\/revisions\/27727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}