{"id":29941,"date":"2021-01-08T15:57:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T23:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29941"},"modified":"2021-01-09T01:55:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T09:55:52","slug":"siskins-catkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29941","title":{"rendered":"Siskins &#038; catkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>-kins<\/em> are getting together. Sis<em>kins<\/em> are little finches that are partial to eating seeds. Cat<em>kins<\/em> are pods of seeds hanging from some broad-leafed trees. The two are clearly <em>kins<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pine Siskins are with us year round. They travel in large flocks that settle on plants to eat seeds, and on winter highways to sip salt and get mashed\u00a0(see <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29864\">bird brains<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A lone Pine Siskin uses its feet to hold a catkin still as it extracts seeds from it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29945\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pinesiskin210107bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Where there is one siskin, there are dozens. These are raiding the catkins of <del>alder<\/del> birch.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29942\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pinesiskin210107cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK, this Pine Siskin is not raiding catkins, but I couldn&#8217;t resist the scene.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29943\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pinesiskin210107as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The -kins are getting together. Siskins are little finches that are partial to eating seeds. Catkins are pods of seeds hanging from some broad-leafed trees. The two are clearly kins.\u00a0 Pine Siskins are with us year round. They travel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29941\">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-29941","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\/29941","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=29941"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29950,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29941\/revisions\/29950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}