{"id":8799,"date":"2013-09-15T07:01:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T14:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8799"},"modified":"2013-09-16T10:48:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T17:48:38","slug":"meadowhawk-mating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8799","title":{"rendered":"Meadowhawk mating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I saw was a male Striped Meadowhawk flying low over the grass along by the edge of a marsh. But, then I noticed two couples copulating in the grass, below.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8801\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/whitefacedmeadowhawk1340914cs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everywhere, there were copulating meadowhawks. In this picture, the male is on the left, the female is on the right. He is holding the back of her head; she is holding his abdomen. The female is doing the work of pumping.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8803\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/whitefacedmeadowhawk1340914as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He now protects his investment by travelling with her to where she can lay the fertilized eggs.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8802\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/whitefacedmeadowhawk1340914bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That couple was not alone; there were dozens of them dropping eggs along the edge of the marsh.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8800\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/whitefacedmeadowhawk1340914ds.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The first thing I saw was a male Striped Meadowhawk flying low over the grass along by the edge of a marsh. But, then I noticed two couples copulating in the grass, below. Everywhere, there were copulating meadowhawks. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8799\">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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799","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=8799"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8812,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions\/8812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}