{"id":10559,"date":"2014-05-11T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T16:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10559"},"modified":"2014-06-24T20:54:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T03:54:18","slug":"mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10559","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A dozen pictures of local families serve to mark Mother&#8217;s Day. They are from my personal archives and were taken at various times through the year.<\/p>\n<p>A Bald Eagle watches over its chick in the nest.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10569\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/eaglenest050805s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Goslings are well protected by their parents.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10560\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/goosefamily110531s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Raccoon mother instructs her kits on foraging techniques.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10562\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/raccoons080714a.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/>A Barn Swallow\u00a0serves\u00a0breakfast.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10563\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/barnswallow100716as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Spotted Sandpiper father broods his\u00a0chicks.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10572\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/spottedsandpiper090706a.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A White-tailed doe and her fawn forage together.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10567\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/whitetaileddeer140309as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mother Merganser introduces\u00a0her chicks to the world.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10565\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/merganserfamily130606as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Northern Flicker chick begs its mother for food.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10574\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/flickers100625as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Otters pose for a midwinter family portrait.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10570\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/otter131227bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nuthatch chicks compete for food from a parent.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10564\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/nuthatch120530as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mother osprey (second from left) poses with her three chicks before they separate during\u00a0migration.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10561\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ospreys130902as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Grizzly bear mother teaches\u00a0her cubs about foraging.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10568\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/grizzly100929bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A dozen pictures of local families serve to mark Mother&#8217;s Day. They are from my personal archives and were taken at various times through the year. A Bald Eagle watches over its chick in the nest. Goslings are well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10559\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559","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=10559"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10946,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559\/revisions\/10946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}