{"id":30140,"date":"2021-03-06T08:59:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T16:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30140"},"modified":"2021-03-06T08:59:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T16:59:56","slug":"incipient-grouse-courting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30140","title":{"rendered":"Incipient grouse courting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23189\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ruffedgrouse180328s3.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"296\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p>March and April is a time for the Ruffed Grouse to court and mate. Three years ago this month, I managed a shot of a male in full courting display (right) in front of an adjacent female. He had his ruff expanded and his tail upright and spread.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, after a winter in which no grouse displayed its ruff, there is a sign of interest. Yesterday&#8217;s ruffed grouse showed a hint of a ruff to its nearby partner and a spread, but not raised, tail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Things may get interesting as the month wears on.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Ruffed Grouse looks as if he has courting on his mind.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30141\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ruffedgrouse210305s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; March and April is a time for the Ruffed Grouse to court and mate. Three years ago this month, I managed a shot of a male in full courting display (right) in front of an adjacent female. He had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30140\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30140","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=30140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30144,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30140\/revisions\/30144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}