{"id":6524,"date":"2012-10-16T14:45:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T21:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6524"},"modified":"2012-10-16T14:45:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T21:45:41","slug":"ruffed-grouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6524","title":{"rendered":"Ruffed Grouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have a Ruffed Grouse in my yard. Well, it doesn&#8217;t spend all of its time here as the home range of the Ruffed Grouse is perhaps twenty or so hectares. This leaves my yard as but a sliver of its space. Yet, the bird visits regularly, as an\u00a0<a title=\"Grouse in residence\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4665\">earlier posting<\/a>\u00a0attests.<\/p>\n<p>A survival strategy of the Ruffed Grouse is to imagine that its\u00a0variegated\u00a0plumage enables it to vanish into the background as long as it doesn&#8217;t move. The plumage makes for interesting pictures and the stillness makes them easy to take.<\/p>\n<p>Here is yesterday&#8217;s grouse. The bird knew I was nearby, but seems to have thought it was invisible.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6525\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ruffedgrouse121015s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have a Ruffed Grouse in my yard. Well, it doesn&#8217;t spend all of its time here as the home range of the Ruffed Grouse is perhaps twenty or so hectares. This leaves my yard as but a sliver &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6524\">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-6524","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\/6524","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=6524"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6530,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions\/6530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}