{"id":35156,"date":"2025-11-10T10:27:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35156"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:25:10","slug":"birds-and-berries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35156","title":{"rendered":"Birds and berries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday morning was a remarkably good day for watching birds eat berries from trees. While even more birds were seen on that walk, shown are those that ate. Eating berries is clearly seasonal.<\/p>\n<p>A late-season Cedar Waxwing is about to eat a blue elderberry. Photo by Cynthia Fraser. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35165\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cedarwaxwing251108as2ccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Merely spotting a Downy Woodpecker makes for a good walk. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35167\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/downywoodpecker251108bCCF.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But watching it eat is better. Here it spreads its wing and leans down to get a berry. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35162\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/downywoodpecker251108bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Downy Woodpecker picks a snowberry. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35158\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/downywoodpecker251108as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But, the nicest transient shot is that of a Crow and blue elderberry. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35157\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/crow251108as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Last Saturday morning was a remarkably good day for watching birds eat berries from trees. While even more birds were seen on that walk, shown are those that ate. Eating berries is clearly seasonal. A late-season Cedar Waxwing is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35156\">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-35156","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\/35156","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=35156"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35170,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35156\/revisions\/35170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}