{"id":5503,"date":"2012-06-14T18:04:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T01:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2012-06-14T18:04:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T01:04:57","slug":"magpie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5503","title":{"rendered":"Magpie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Black-billed Magpie certainly has been seen at a number of places around the Lake&#8212;but, it has been seen only occasionally. As <a href=\"http:\/\/linnet.geog.ubc.ca\/efauna\/Images\/Maps\/birds\/largemaps\/Pica%20hudsonia.png\" target=\"_blank\">efauna.bc.ca<\/a>\u00a0says: it is a rare year-round visitor. Truth be told, the one I present here was seen just west of this region in the Monashees, but a magpie it is. It has perched in the rain on great mullieins.<\/p>\n<p>The magpie is a member of the crow family, i.e., it is a corvid. The region offers other more frequently seen corvids: crow, raven, Stellar&#8217;s Jay, Clark&#8217;s Nutcracker, and now and then, a magpie.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5504\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/magpie120607s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Black-billed Magpie certainly has been seen at a number of places around the Lake&#8212;but, it has been seen only occasionally. As efauna.bc.ca\u00a0says: it is a rare year-round visitor. Truth be told, the one I present here was seen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5503\">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-5503","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\/5503","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=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5513,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions\/5513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}