{"id":35593,"date":"2026-05-28T16:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35593"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:07:28","slug":"pine-siskins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35593","title":{"rendered":"Pine Siskins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pine Siskins are nomadic and irruptive. They are here one season and gone the next as they roam around looking for seeds in trees. Today, a flock of them was indulging in a offbeat practice of getting salt into their diet in a parking lot that had been salted by humans to melt snow and ice during last winter.<\/p>\n<p>A small proportion of the more than 30 Pine Siskins eating salt in a parking lot.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35595\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pinesiskin260528s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pine Siskins are nomadic and irruptive. They are here one season and gone the next as they roam around looking for seeds in trees. Today, a flock of them was indulging in a offbeat practice of getting salt into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35593\">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-35593","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\/35593","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=35593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35596,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35593\/revisions\/35596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}