{"id":7779,"date":"2013-05-21T12:14:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T19:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7779"},"modified":"2013-05-21T19:00:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T02:00:27","slug":"yard-delights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7779","title":{"rendered":"Yard delights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many postings are narrowly focused. This one wanders.<\/p>\n<p>This Song Sparrow is one of the many birds busily catching bugs and ferrying them to its chicks.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7792\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/songsparrow130520s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have seen the Western Tiger Swallowtail a few times of late; this is the first time I managed a picture.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7791\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/westerntigerswallowtail130520s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It and the Pale Swallowtail were sipping nutrients from wet sand beside the Lake.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7790\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/paleswallowtail130520s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The instant the Sun appeared from behind a cloud, the flowers of the deer brush become alive with insects. Some were too fast for me to photograph, but here are a few that cooperated. The abdomen of this leaf-cutter bee is festooned with the cream-coloured pollen it is collecting.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7793\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bee130520s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A hover fly rests on a leaf between its visits to flowers. Hover flies often mimic bees as a defence against birds.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7789\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hoverfly130520s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a fight lasting only seconds, one mining (?) bee attacked another.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7788\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/beefight130520s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The prettiest bees are the cuckoo bees. They are nearly hairless and are often painted scarlet, lemon, or orange.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7787\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/cuckoobee130520s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Many postings are narrowly focused. This one wanders. This Song Sparrow is one of the many birds busily catching bugs and ferrying them to its chicks. I have seen the Western Tiger Swallowtail a few times of late; this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7779\">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":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779","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=7779"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7801,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions\/7801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}