{"id":29929,"date":"2021-01-03T16:20:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T00:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29929"},"modified":"2021-01-03T16:20:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T00:20:16","slug":"creeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29929","title":{"rendered":"Creeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I took an indifferent picture of a Brown Creeper this morning. Indeed, it is barely worth posting &#8212; except for the backstory: with this creeper it is four for four.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen a Brown Creeper four times, and on each of those occasions someone else found it for me. I have never found one on my own. OK, in my defence, this little bird is the master of disguise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet&#8230;, how long will this creeper-finding disability persist?<\/p>\n<p>A Brown Creeper (briefly) clings to the trunk of a Douglas-fir in the forest.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29930\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/browncreeper210103s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This better shot of a Brown Creeper was taken in 2017, but it also was found by someone else. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/browncreaper170831s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21798\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I took an indifferent picture of a Brown Creeper this morning. Indeed, it is barely worth posting &#8212; except for the backstory: with this creeper it is four for four. I have seen a Brown Creeper four times, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29929\">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-29929","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\/29929","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=29929"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29939,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29929\/revisions\/29939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}