{"id":12641,"date":"2015-01-25T09:46:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T17:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12641"},"modified":"2015-01-25T09:46:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T17:46:40","slug":"bighorn-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12641","title":{"rendered":"Bighorn (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This has been a good season for hanging out with Bighorn Sheep. In October there were three postings (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11841\">portraits<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11861\">wooing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11874\">mating<\/a>), followed by another in December (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12221\">roadside sheep<\/a>). Now, this one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting to me is that the October, December, and January postings are\u00a0of three different local herds, not a revisiting of the same group of animals.<\/p>\n<p>About two dozen bighorns were milling around: males, females, juveniles.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12644\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bighornsheep150121as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two of us are alone together in a crowd.&#8221;<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12643\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bighornsheep150121bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It takes a herd\u00a0to raise a lamb.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12642\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bighornsheep150121cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This has been a good season for hanging out with Bighorn Sheep. In October there were three postings (portraits, wooing, mating), followed by another in December (roadside sheep). Now, this one.\u00a0 What is interesting to me is that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12641\">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-12641","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\/12641","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=12641"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12654,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641\/revisions\/12654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}