{"id":12761,"date":"2015-02-28T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T00:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12761"},"modified":"2015-02-28T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T00:50:12","slug":"coyote-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12761","title":{"rendered":"Coyote season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I watched two coyotes this morning, I sensed a pattern.\u00a0So, I looked through all my\u00a0(dated) coyote pictures for a decade and the pattern became\u00a0clear: I only see coyotes hunting from December through April. Now, I live at\u00a0the valley bottom. I am sure that\u00a0the general coyote absence during the summer is merely a consequence of their having moved higher\u00a0in the mountains as the snow recedes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two coyotes emerged from the brush alongside a tertiary road.\u00a0<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12762\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/coyote150228bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They ignored me standing nearby, but soon drifted across the road and into the woods on the other side.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12764\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/coyote150228as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As I watched two coyotes this morning, I sensed a pattern.\u00a0So, I looked through all my\u00a0(dated) coyote pictures for a decade and the pattern became\u00a0clear: I only see coyotes hunting from December through April. Now, I live at\u00a0the valley &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12761\">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-12761","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\/12761","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=12761"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12775,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions\/12775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}