{"id":35431,"date":"2026-03-23T16:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35431"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:16:15","slug":"two-birds-black-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35431","title":{"rendered":"Two birds, black &#038; blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In two sunny days, I saw a couple of birds: one black and white, the other blue and white.<\/p>\n<p>The magpie was gathering sticks for its nest.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35432\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/magpie260322s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mountain bluebird was at Kokanee Park searching for grubs to eat.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35433\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bluebird260323s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In two sunny days, I saw a couple of birds: one black and white, the other blue and white. The magpie was gathering sticks for its nest. The mountain bluebird was at Kokanee Park searching for grubs to eat. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35431\">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-35431","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\/35431","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=35431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35437,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35431\/revisions\/35437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}