{"id":34354,"date":"2025-03-03T09:23:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34354"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:23:04","slug":"wild-turkey-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34354","title":{"rendered":"Wild Turkey display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With yesterday&#8217;s posting of mallards mating &lt;blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34342&gt; and today&#8217;s observation of turkey displays, it is clear that the mating season is upon us. There were three toms displaying and soliciting, but the females were not yet interested.<\/p>\n<p>A male Wild Turkey in full display tries to interest a female, but she turns and walks away.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34342\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34355\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/turkey250303s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; With yesterday&#8217;s posting of mallards mating &lt;blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34342&gt; and today&#8217;s observation of turkey displays, it is clear that the mating season is upon us. There were three toms displaying and soliciting, but the females were not yet interested. A male &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34354\">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-34354","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\/34354","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=34354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34358,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34354\/revisions\/34358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}