{"id":6402,"date":"2012-09-26T17:22:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T00:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2012-09-26T17:22:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T00:22:46","slug":"shrikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6402","title":{"rendered":"Shrike&#8217;s back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The season is changing, and with it come the migrants: birds that bred farther to the north, and so were absent from here all summer. They now reappear as they move through our area to head south for the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I saw two of these migrants: a Northern Shrike and a White-throated Sparrow. I posted a picture of a Northern Shrike as it headed north in\u00a0<a title=\"Not a bluebird\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4712\">April<\/a>, but this sparrow was new to me.<\/p>\n<p>This Northern Shrike is a juvenile (hatched this year). Shrikes are songbirds that behave as if they were hawks; they use their hooked bill to tear their prey.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6404\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/northernshrike120926Hs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This White-throated Sparrow was seen this morning at Kokanee Creek Provincial Park.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6403\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/whitethroatedsparrow120926s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The season is changing, and with it come the migrants: birds that bred farther to the north, and so were absent from here all summer. They now reappear as they move through our area to head south for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6402\">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-6402","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\/6402","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=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6408,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions\/6408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}