{"id":6974,"date":"2013-01-01T19:08:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T03:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6974"},"modified":"2013-01-01T19:31:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T03:31:37","slug":"rowan-and-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6974","title":{"rendered":"Rowan means red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Rowan Tree is generally known as the Mountain Ash in North America. Yet, I must admit that I am partial to the earlier name. Rowan comes from an Old Norse name that means &#8220;getting red&#8221;, a reference to the berries. These berries appeal to a number of birds, but particularly appealing to me photographically are those birds which are, themselves, reddish. I give a couple of examples from this New-Year&#8217;s Day. To these, I add a couple of nice extras seen today.<\/p>\n<p>The Pine Grosbeak is not seen every winter. In some years it irrupts from its northern habitat. It does seem partial to rowan berries. This reddish one enjoying the rowan berries is a male.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6980\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"pinegrosbeak130101as\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pinegrosbeak130101as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The female Pine Grosbeak is not nearly as colourful, but that does not stop her from enjoying the rowan berries.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6979\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"pinegrosbeak130101bs\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pinegrosbeak130101bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our most common woodpecker is the Red-shafted Northern Flicker. This male is inching its way down a branch to reach the rowan berries,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6978\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/flicker130101as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and it succeeded in eating some.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6977\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/flicker130101bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also seen today (but not feasting on rowan berries) was a Golden-crowned Kinglet,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6976\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/goldencrownedkinglet130101s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and a rather young-looking Great Blue Heron.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6975\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/heron130101s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Rowan Tree is generally known as the Mountain Ash in North America. Yet, I must admit that I am partial to the earlier name. 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