{"id":33843,"date":"2024-10-05T19:32:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T02:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33843"},"modified":"2024-10-05T19:32:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T02:32:04","slug":"mountain-chickadee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33843","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Chickadee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have four local species of chickadee: Black-capped, Chestnut-backed, Mountain, and Boreal. These are listed in order from common to rare. Nearly four years ago, I saw the Mountain Chickadee for the first time and posted. I encourage opening that posting, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29904<\/a>, to see how they differ. Briefly, the common Black-capped Chickadee does not have a white bar above its eye.<\/p>\n<p>One possible reason the Mountain Chickadee is rarely seen is that it only comes down from the mountains in the fall. Indeed, my first sighting was in December.<\/p>\n<p>This Mountain Chickadee was with many Black-capped Chickadees scouring for food.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33844\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/mountainchickadee241005s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"959\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/mountainchickadee241005s2.jpg 959w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/mountainchickadee241005s2-768x767.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We have four local species of chickadee: Black-capped, Chestnut-backed, Mountain, and Boreal. These are listed in order from common to rare. Nearly four years ago, I saw the Mountain Chickadee for the first time and posted. I encourage opening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33843\">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-33843","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\/33843","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=33843"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33851,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33843\/revisions\/33851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}