{"id":7419,"date":"2013-04-06T19:29:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T02:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7419"},"modified":"2013-04-06T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T04:37:00","slug":"junco-jamboree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7419","title":{"rendered":"Junco jamboree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Dark-eyed Junco is a sparrow. While it might be seen around the Lake at any time of the year, it is most common in the spring when juncos that wintered to the south of us pass through this region to breed farther north. The spring brings us a\u00a0jamboree\u00a0of juncos.<\/p>\n<p>Our local Dark-eyed Juncos are more to be noted for their black hangman&#8217;s hood than their eyes, although the hood is darker in the male than the female.<\/p>\n<p>A male Dark-eyed Junco stares at the camera.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7420\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/junco130406cs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another male sits in the trees.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7421\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/junco130406bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The hood of the female is more grey than black.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7422\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/junco130406as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Dark-eyed Junco is a sparrow. While it might be seen around the Lake at any time of the year, it is most common in the spring when juncos that wintered to the south of us pass through this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7419\">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-7419","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\/7419","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=7419"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7426,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419\/revisions\/7426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}