{"id":12325,"date":"2014-12-30T08:42:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T16:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12325"},"modified":"2014-12-30T08:42:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T16:42:17","slug":"mammal-reprise-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12325","title":{"rendered":"Mammal reprise 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alas, my camera finds far fewer mammals for me than it does birds,\u00a0so I must savour the few opportunities it gives me. Here are a few of the mammal shots I liked from 2014.<\/p>\n<p>There are two local species of marmots. This is a Yellow-bellied Marmot parent grooming its pup.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12328\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/marmot140604as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was the first year I managed to photograph a Pika. I had heard them before, but not seen them.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12331\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pika140607bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>White-tailed Deer abound, but I was particularly pleased to manage this contemplative shot of a doe with its faun.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12332\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/whitetaileddeer140905s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are River Otters in our Lake; they\u00a0visit occasionally.\u00a0<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12330\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/otter141110as3.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Mountain Goat is skilled at avoiding predators by living on a cliff. Its\u00a0ledge is even narrower than its hoofs.\u00a0<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12329\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mountaingoat141002s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Grizzly Bear is an icon of the wilderness. Here, a sow scarfs a berry of a black-hawthorn tree.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12327\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/grizzly141001ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is an image I have sought for some time: two Bighorn Sheep butting heads as they compete for a female.\u00a0<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12326\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bighorn141012fs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Alas, my camera finds far fewer mammals for me than it does birds,\u00a0so I must savour the few opportunities it gives me. Here are a few of the mammal shots I liked from 2014. There are two local species &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12325\">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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325","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=12325"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12352,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325\/revisions\/12352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}