{"id":30327,"date":"2021-04-04T07:20:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T14:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30327"},"modified":"2021-04-04T07:20:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T14:20:21","slug":"mountain-bluebird-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30327","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Bluebird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mountain Bluebirds are arriving. They like open fields where they hunt insects from low perches. Once an insect is spotted, the bird dives on it, returns to a perch, and feasts.<\/p>\n<p>A splash of blue sits in the leafless brush watching the dry grass below.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30336\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mountainbluebird210403fs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Between forays, the bluebird preens,\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30335\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mountainbluebird210403es2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and fluffs.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30337\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mountainbluebird210403ds2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A grub, having been spotted, is quickly retrieved,\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-30332\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mountainbluebird210403as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and promptly downed.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30331\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mountainbluebird210403cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cerulean beauty watches between pounces.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30329\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mountainbluebird210403bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mountain Bluebirds are arriving. They like open fields where they hunt insects from low perches. Once an insect is spotted, the bird dives on it, returns to a perch, and feasts. A splash of blue sits in the leafless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30327\">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-30327","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\/30327","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=30327"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30350,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30327\/revisions\/30350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}