{"id":35496,"date":"2026-04-20T15:21:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35496"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:21:47","slug":"catchup-females","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35496","title":{"rendered":"Catchup females"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I posted two male migrants: a male <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35465\">Mountain Bluebird<\/a> and a male <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35489\">Wood Duck<\/a>. I have just managed to photograph the females of the species also. Both look somewhat different than the males.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the female Mountain Bluebird.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35497\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/mountainbluebird260418s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, here is the female Wood Duck.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35498\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/woodduckfemale260418s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Recently, I posted two male migrants: a male Mountain Bluebird and a male Wood Duck. I have just managed to photograph the females of the species also. Both look somewhat different than the males. Here is the female Mountain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35496\">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-35496","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\/35496","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=35496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35500,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35496\/revisions\/35500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}