{"id":34397,"date":"2025-04-07T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34397"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T17:01:30","slug":"mountain-bluebirds-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34397","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Bluebirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the time that the Mountain Bluebirds come through this region. There have been a few observations so far and here are some pictures we got yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>A male Mountain Bluebird sits on a bush watching for insects and grubs to eat from the grasslands.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34399\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mountainbluebird250406as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A female Mountain Bluebird also scans the ground for insects and grubs. Photo by Dorothy Fraser.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34401\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mountainbluebird250406asdmf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having spotted something, tbe bluebird flies after it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34400\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mountainbluebird250406bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another male Mountain Bluebird scans the grasslands. Photo by Cynthia Fraser.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34403\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250406mountainbluebirdccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is the time that the Mountain Bluebirds come through this region. There have been a few observations so far and here are some pictures we got yesterday. A male Mountain Bluebird sits on a bush watching for insects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34397\">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-34397","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\/34397","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=34397"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34408,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34397\/revisions\/34408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}