{"id":6474,"date":"2012-10-09T06:15:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6474"},"modified":"2012-10-09T18:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T01:53:58","slug":"horned-lark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6474","title":{"rendered":"Horned Lark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Horned Lark is not seen often around Kootenay Lake, but when it is seen it is most likely to be now, during migration. Two local subspecies can be seen: one with a markedly yellow face found at low elevations; one with a more whitish face found high. Two pictures, taken in an open field at about 1370 metres, show the more whitish-faced bird.<\/p>\n<p>The Horned Lark is a ground feeder. This may well be a juvenile.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6476\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/hornedlark121007bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At these elevations, the throat of the Horned Lark is more whitish than yellowish.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6475\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/hornedlark121007as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Horned Lark is not seen often around Kootenay Lake, but when it is seen it is most likely to be now, during migration. Two local subspecies can be seen: one with a markedly yellow face found at low &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6474\">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-6474","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\/6474","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=6474"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9716,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions\/9716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}