{"id":28411,"date":"2020-03-24T19:16:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T02:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28411"},"modified":"2020-03-24T19:24:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T02:24:52","slug":"finally-bluebirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28411","title":{"rendered":"Finally bluebirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For a few days now, others have been seeing Mountain Bluebirds around the Lake. I failed to find them until today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the coming of spring, Mountain Bluebirds flow into this region in search of insects. They perch close to the ground, spot an insect and swoop down and capture it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A female Mountain Bluebird watches for insects from a bush.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28416\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mountainbluebird200324ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It spots something and flies off after it. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28414\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mountainbluebird200324bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It captures and flies off with an insect.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28412\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mountainbluebird200324cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A male Mountain Bluebird sits on a perch watching for insects.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28413\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mountainbluebird200324as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For a few days now, others have been seeing Mountain Bluebirds around the Lake. I failed to find them until today.\u00a0 With the coming of spring, Mountain Bluebirds flow into this region in search of insects. They perch close &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28411\">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-28411","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\/28411","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=28411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28420,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28411\/revisions\/28420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}