{"id":26978,"date":"2016-04-04T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=26978"},"modified":"2016-04-04T22:00:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T05:00:28","slug":"day-091-dancing-on-the-lek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=26978","title":{"rendered":"Day 091: Dancing on the Lek!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year from April through mid-May the Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge draws for entrance to the photography blind by one of the Sharp-tailed Grouse leks, or breeding dance grounds. \u00c2\u00a0This year Friend Walter and I got to go the first morning. \u00c2\u00a0You have to be in the blind an hour before sunrise, and can’t leave until after the dancing is done. \u00c2\u00a0Dress warmly!<\/p>\n

Sharp-tailed Grouse.<\/p>\n

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And a bit of video. \u00c2\u00a0It will open in another window. \u00c2\u00a0Remember, I was there to take stills…<\/p>\n

Sharp-tailed Grouse dancing on the lek<\/a><\/p>\n

About half or more of the Grouse had left by the time I took this:<\/p>\n

The area in front of the blind<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch the background for activity<\/a><\/p>\n

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Every year from April through mid-May the Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge draws for entrance to the photography blind by one of the Sharp-tailed Grouse leks, or breeding dance grounds. \u00c2\u00a0This year Friend Walter and I got to go the first morning. \u00c2\u00a0You have to be in the blind an hour before sunrise, and can’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33,5,49,8,34,37,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos-i-have-shown-at-the-camera-club","category-landscapes","category-on-the-road","category-pad-2016","category-photography","category-sunrises","category-video","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26983,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26978\/revisions\/26983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}