{"id":4077,"date":"2012-02-01T12:13:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T20:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4077"},"modified":"2012-02-02T01:28:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T09:28:08","slug":"redpolls-by-the-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4077","title":{"rendered":"Redpolls by the gross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a good winter in the south for seeing redpolls. Despite being small, redpolls are content to winter in the frigid north as long as the food holds out. When it doesn&#8217;t, they head south. Last Friday I saw a flock of a few hundred. Indeed, in one picture shot into its midst, I counted a 150 birds, and many more were outside the frame.<\/p>\n<p>Birders have fun watching redpolls. There are two different species: Common Redpolls and Hoary Redpolls (accustomed\u00a0to even bleaker arctic conditions). Further, both show sexual dimorphism: the males and females look somewhat different. I will guess at some of these variations, below, and have labeled pictures to make for easy commenting.<\/p>\n<p>A portion of a flock of redpolls&#8212;mainly Common Redpolls with a few Hoary Redpolls mixed in.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4078\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/redpolls120127bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(1) A female Common Redpoll has been eating\u00a0tansy\u00a0seeds.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4082\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/redpollcommonF120127as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(2) A male Common Redpoll (showing a much pinker breast)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4081\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/redpollcommonM120127bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(3) Some Hoary Redpolls (the ones with the fainter streaking on the sides and white butt)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4080\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/redpolls120127as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(4) So, what is this?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4079\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/redpoll120127as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a good winter in the south for seeing redpolls. Despite being small, redpolls are content to winter in the frigid north as long as the food holds out. When it doesn&#8217;t, they head south. Last Friday I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4077\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-4077","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\/4077","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=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}