{"id":28919,"date":"2020-06-05T16:18:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T23:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28919"},"modified":"2020-06-05T17:15:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T00:15:53","slug":"cedar-waxwings-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28919","title":{"rendered":"Cedar Waxwings feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gregarious, garrulous, and guileless, a couple of dozen Cedar Waxwings feast on the petals of a black hawthorn tree. This is the first time I have seen a flock of these birds feeding on the petals of flowers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cedar Waxwing visits to breed here in the warm season. But, it also wanders about to feed.<\/p>\n<p>One of the many Cedar Waxwings sits amidst its target blossoms of the black hawthorn tree.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28921\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cedarwaxwing200605cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a bird depletes the petals at one spot, it quickly flies to another. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28923\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cedarwaxwing200605as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems that the thing being eaten is actually the petals of the blossoms.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28922\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cedarwaxwing200605bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And soon a bird is off to sample another blossom. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28920\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cedarwaxwing200605ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Gregarious, garrulous, and guileless, a couple of dozen Cedar Waxwings feast on the petals of a black hawthorn tree. This is the first time I have seen a flock of these birds feeding on the petals of flowers.\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28919\">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-28919","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\/28919","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=28919"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28940,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28919\/revisions\/28940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}