{"id":5375,"date":"2012-06-02T08:04:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T15:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2012-06-02T08:04:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T15:04:57","slug":"eggs-and-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5375","title":{"rendered":"Eggs and protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some birds protest vigorously if a human (or other perceived predator) passes anywhere near their eggs. The odd thing is\u00a0that often this noise serves to reveal the\u00a0presence\u00a0of a nest that would otherwise be missed.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Graeme sent me this picture of a killdeer near Nelson. It is standing over its eggs and vigorously protesting the presence of people in the area. Just as some people will buy a house near an airport and then complain about the noise, this killdeer had laid eggs around humans and then complained when they passed by.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5379\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kildeer120524EGs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, it was protestations of this robin that had built a nest within a meter of my home that alerted me to the fact that it was there.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5376\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/robinprotest120601s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Without the protests, I would have walked right past without noticing the eggs.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5378\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/robineggs120601s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on another side of the house, a robin chick has already left the nest. At the point the chick is mobile, the parents become more relaxed.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5377\" title=\"robinchick120601s\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/robinchick120601s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Emily Graeme&#8217;s picture is used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Some birds protest vigorously if a human (or other perceived predator) passes anywhere near their eggs. The odd thing is\u00a0that often this noise serves to reveal the\u00a0presence\u00a0of a nest that would otherwise be missed. Emily Graeme sent me this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5375\">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-5375","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\/5375","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=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5382,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions\/5382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}