{"id":31555,"date":"2022-02-13T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T19:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31555"},"modified":"2022-02-13T11:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T19:49:03","slug":"bohemian-waxwings-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31555","title":{"rendered":"Bohemian Waxwings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A week ago, I posted pictures of a winter visitor to the valley bottom: a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31542\">Pygmy Owl<\/a>. Given its preferences, this owl would prefer to go after irruptive birds. This week many irruptive birds, Bohemian Waxwings, arrived about a hundred metres from where the Pygmy Owl had been. The owl&#8217;s timing was a bit off.<\/p>\n<p>When irrupting, Bohemian Waxwings travel in great numbers, a few hundred together. They find a staging tree next to a berry tree. From there, they travel in smaller numbers to feed on the berries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A view of a quarter to a third of the birds await their turn in a staging tree. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31556\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bohemianwaxwing220212as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A small group flies from the staging tree to feed on rowan berries (mountain ash).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31563\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bohemianwaxwing220212gsCCF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The waxwings are voracious. Two of them have berries in their throats. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31557\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bohemianwaxwing220212bsCCF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the rowan berries hang below the twigs, the birds often often grab them upside down.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31559\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bohemianwaxwing220212ds2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here, one bird grabs a berry and another is about to.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31558\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bohemianwaxwing220212cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Repositioning the berry.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31562\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bohemianwaxwing220212fs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having swallowed a berry, a waxwing flies back to the staging tree.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31560\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bohemianwaxwing220212es.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\nPictures two and three courtesy Cynthia Fraser.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A week ago, I posted pictures of a winter visitor to the valley bottom: a Pygmy Owl. Given its preferences, this owl would prefer to go after irruptive birds. This week many irruptive birds, Bohemian Waxwings, arrived about a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31555\">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-31555","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\/31555","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=31555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31565,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31555\/revisions\/31565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}