{"id":11052,"date":"2014-07-11T21:09:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T04:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11052"},"modified":"2014-07-11T21:25:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T04:25:13","slug":"two-snake-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11052","title":{"rendered":"Two-snake day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are two species of Garter Snake around the Lake: Common and Western. And while today I saw two snakes, each\u00a0was the slightly less common Western Garter Snake.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0nice thing about the observations\u00a0was that each appeared in a different one of the snake&#8217;s favoured habitats: water, meadow. The snake\u00a0has a varied diet and finds things to eat in both places.<\/p>\n<p>Most Western Garter Snakes in the Province have prominent stripes, but our interior variety has a\u00a0more mottled pattern, as is seen in these shots.<\/p>\n<p>This snake had a regular foraging pattern, going back and forth over roughly the same stretch of water. While that made taking pictures\u00a0a bit easier, the snake did not keep to\u00a0a regular schedule.\u00a0<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11054\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/westerngartersnake140711as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In somewhat dimmer light, this one foraged in a meadow. It left when it saw me, so I didn&#8217;t discover its\u00a0routine.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11053\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/westerngartersnake140711bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There are two species of Garter Snake around the Lake: Common and Western. And while today I saw two snakes, each\u00a0was the slightly less common Western Garter Snake. A\u00a0nice thing about the observations\u00a0was that each appeared in a different &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11052\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-herptiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052","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=11052"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11062,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052\/revisions\/11062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}