{"id":379,"date":"2016-05-06T23:50:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T04:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2016-06-12T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T17:51:09","slug":"dancing-with-grouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2016\/05\/06\/dancing-with-grouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing With Grouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmousedown=\"alert('Sorry ... you will need to contact me if you wish to use this photo')\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/photosbydennis\/image\/163157633\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Early morning visit to the lek (dancing area) &#8230; it&#8217;s my understanding they return each year to the same location.<\/p>\n<p>Pair of Sharp-tailed Grouse square off. After their display they both sit down on the ground, face to face and appear to have a staring contest. Often one of the birds will lunge at the other, then break apart and find another bird to continue the display with.<\/p>\n<p>This continues on and on for some time.<\/p>\n<p>This event was a delight to witness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early morning visit to the lek (dancing area) &#8230; it&#8217;s my understanding they return each year to the same location. Pair of Sharp-tailed Grouse square off. After their display they both sit down on the ground, face to face and appear to have a staring contest. Often one of the birds will lunge at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-birds","tag-sharp-tailed-grouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}