{"id":9835,"date":"2014-02-15T18:18:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T02:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9835"},"modified":"2014-02-15T18:18:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T02:18:31","slug":"replacement-grouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9835","title":{"rendered":"Replacement grouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For some years, a Ruffed Grouse has been a regular visitor to my yard. Then all visits stopped. Subsequently, I learned that a local dog had been its executioner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, I heard the wing beats of a flushed grouse in my yard. Today, I saw it. I think it is female.<\/p>\n<p>From this view, I would not be able to tell whether this Ruffed Grouse beside my house was male or female.\u00a0<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9836\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ruffedgrouse140215as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, an indicator of the sex is revealed by a spread tail, such as seen in this shot from the side back. The evidence is in the tail&#8217;s terminal black band. If the band is continuous across the full width of the tail, then the bird is male. If there is a break in the middle as seen here (lower right of picture), the bird is probably a female.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9838\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ruffedgrouse140215bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite the loss of the previous grouse, the arrival of a new female just might bring chicks.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9837\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ruffedgrouse140215cs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For some years, a Ruffed Grouse has been a regular visitor to my yard. Then all visits stopped. Subsequently, I learned that a local dog had been its executioner.\u00a0 Two days ago, I heard the wing beats of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9835\">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-9835","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\/9835","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=9835"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9848,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835\/revisions\/9848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}