{"id":968,"date":"2011-02-17T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T01:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=968"},"modified":"2011-04-15T12:08:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T19:08:24","slug":"restless-waxwings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Restless waxwings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure that when a Bohemian Waxing encounters a genuine birder, it alights nearby and allows a closeup photograph. With me, waxwings always arrive in great numbers at the top of a distant tree, flutter about for a while, decide that I am clearly unworthy and leave.<\/p>\n<p>The Bohemian Waxwing is a winter bird around here. Others have been reporting it for some time, but I didn&#8217;t see any until this morning near Sitkum Creek where I played cat and mouse: I arrive, they leave; I move, they move. Well, that is just how waxwings behave: arrive in great numbers, start flying from branch to branch and if enough neighbours join in, take off for somewhere else and start all over again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; margin-top: 0px; width: 300px; float: right; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">The Kootenay Lake website offers more pictures and a discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/birds\/passerines\/waxwings\/index.html\">waxwings.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of their frenetic activity is evident in the three pictures below where at any given moment, a fair fraction of them are in the air merely flying to adjacent branches.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-975\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/waxwings110217bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-969\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/waxwings110217as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/waxwings110217cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure that when a Bohemian Waxing encounters a genuine birder, it alights nearby and allows a closeup photograph. With me, waxwings always arrive in great numbers at the top of a distant tree, flutter about for a while, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=968\">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-968","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\/968","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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}