{"id":12478,"date":"2015-01-13T10:37:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T18:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12478"},"modified":"2015-01-13T12:53:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:53:19","slug":"otters-and-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12478","title":{"rendered":"Otters and ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A pair of River Otters ceaselessly patrolled the edge of border ice. Why? Were fish more plentiful there, possibly because ice forms where water is shallow, or because fish seek safe darkness under ice?\u00a0Does anyone know? Whatever the reason, the otters did catch a fish (but the picture of it was poor).<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12479\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/otter150112es2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A shot of nearly submerged otters is not nearly as interesting as ones where they are half out of the water,<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12483\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/otter150112as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>climbing onto the shore,<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12481\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/otter150112cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>perching on\u00a0a snow bank,<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12480\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/otter150112ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or sitting\u00a0on border ice.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12482\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/otter150112bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A pair of River Otters ceaselessly patrolled the edge of border ice. Why? Were fish more plentiful there, possibly because ice forms where water is shallow, or because fish seek safe darkness under ice?\u00a0Does anyone know? Whatever the reason, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12478\">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-12478","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\/12478","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=12478"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12497,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478\/revisions\/12497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}