{"id":28641,"date":"2020-04-24T16:08:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T23:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28641"},"modified":"2020-04-24T16:39:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T23:39:37","slug":"mountain-bluebird-and-grub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28641","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Bluebird and grub"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Mountain Bluebird is an insectivore that particularly favours eating caterpillars. Yet, in the many pictures I have taken of this bird foraging, it is only rarely that I have captured an image of its successful insect capture.<\/p>\n

The birds’ hunting success rate seems as remarkably low as has my own success rate in capturing images of the birds’ insect captures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, it was a delight to see a female Mountain Bluebird which had just captured a caterpillar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The caterpillar was quickly aligned with the bluebird’s bill and swallowed.
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