{"id":162263,"date":"2015-05-14T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=ad4de6a177462ab09feaa6b862544e14"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:55:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:55:04","slug":"sage-grouse-strut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/sage-grouse-strut\/","title":{"rendered":"Sage Grouse Strut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally had a chance to see a greater-sage grouse lek (and a sharp-tailed lek, too!) last week. It’s nearing the end of lekking season, but there were still about 45 males (and a few females showed up) strutting their stuff.<\/p>\n

The first day I went out there were 40 mph winds and I couldn’t even hear them (which is part of the experience!) so I decided to try again the next morning.<\/p>\n

I got there super early before most of the males arrived, and was lucky enough to have one guy close enough for some decent photos. Pretty cool stuff! Here’s a long series of his love dance.<\/p>\n

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Finally had a chance to see a greater-sage grouse lek (and a sharp-tailed lek, too!) last week. It’s nearing the end of lekking season, but there were still about 45 males (and a few females showed up) strutting their stuff. The first day I went out there were 40 mph winds and I couldn’t even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2196042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-0JVxzOS5Pv4\/VUzwXDKmb0I\/AAAAAAAALRo\/p_nrj43AQSE\/s1600\/sg1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2425,207],"class_list":["post-162263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-jill-wussow","tag-sage-grouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}