{"id":3842,"date":"2012-01-09T16:41:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T00:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2012-01-10T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T18:22:25","slug":"red-crossbill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3842","title":{"rendered":"Pine Grosbeak"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched a Bohemian Waxing landing in a bush beside my pathway. It then took off, but more arrived and filled a mountain ash. Waxwings travel in flocks and usually provide for good pictures as they feast on berries. So,\u00a0I happily clicked away, paying more attention to exposure, focus, and composition than I did to the birds themselves.<\/p>\n

It was only after looking at the pictures that I realized that only some of the birds in the flock were Bohemian Waxwings; most were Pine Grosbeaks. (Well, actually, I thought they were Red Crossbills, but Gary Davidson set me straight on that). The Pine Grosbeak is listed as uncommon in my\u00a0neighbourhood, and occasional elsewhere in the West Kootenay. Maybe I can be forgiven for not recognizing it.<\/p>\n

A Pine Grosbeak samples a berry from a mountain ash to give a picture of red on red.
\nMany of the berries show signs of having been chewed.
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The same bird, but facing the other way and eating a berry.
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A view from the back shows the white bars on the wings.
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This one is a female.
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And what about the Bohemian Waxwings that started it all? Well, here is one that was travelling with the grosbeaks.
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I watched a Bohemian Waxing landing in a bush beside my pathway. It then took off, but more arrived and filled a mountain ash. Waxwings travel in flocks and usually provide for good pictures as they feast on berries. So,\u00a0I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-3842","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\/3842","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=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3851,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions\/3851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}