{"id":3353,"date":"2011-11-06T18:25:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T02:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2011-11-07T09:07:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T17:07:03","slug":"birds-that-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3353","title":{"rendered":"Birds that hide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In two days, I encountered two birds that hide. One apparently thought it was rather good at camouflage, but was actually comically bad. The other was superb.<\/p>\n<p>The first bird was a Ruffed Grouse. I watched it as it watched me doing yard work. It seemed convinced it couldn&#8217;t be seen. Finally, I stopped work, fetched my camera, and took its picture. As I left, it continued to feign invisibility.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3354\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/grouse111105s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then there is the snipe; I show pictures of two different ones seen at Kokanee Creek Park today. I spotted neither of them on my own&#8212;Derek Kite found them. He would say, there it is; I would say, I see nothing but grass.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3355\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/snipe111106bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3356\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/snipe111106as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two days, I encountered two birds that hide. One apparently thought it was rather good at camouflage, but was actually comically bad. The other was superb. The first bird was a Ruffed Grouse. I watched it as it watched &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3353\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-3353","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\/3353","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=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3363,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions\/3363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}