{"id":13556,"date":"2015-05-11T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13556"},"modified":"2015-05-11T08:46:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T15:46:33","slug":"bountiful-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13556","title":{"rendered":"Bountiful watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nature watching has been bountiful in the last few days. In addition to the just posted <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13523\">toads in amplexus<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13543\">dipper chicks<\/a>, some things seen were:<\/p>\n<p>A Cliff Swallow peeking out of its nest;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13564\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cliffswallow150509s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A marmot contemplating (&#8220;You disparaged my vanity on your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13488\">previous posting<\/a>, but when I&#8217;m not sleeping, eating, or mating, I really am a contemplative fellow.&#8221;);<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13563\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/marmot150509s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Goslings following their parents;<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13557\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/goose150508s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Painted Turtle lazing in the Lake (The rest of us must wait for summer.);<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13561\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/turtle150508s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An early season dragonfly perching (possibly a female Spiny Baskettail);<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dragonfly150508s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13558\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A close view of a Barrow&#8217;s Goldeneye Duck revealing its\u00a0iridescent head;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13559\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/barrowsgoldeneye150508s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Black Bear grazing on dandelions (It did not like being watched.);<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13562\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/blackbear150508s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nothing beat a coyote impudently walking with its back to the traffic flow, which stopped on the road and pooped.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13560\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/coyote150508s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nature watching has been bountiful in the last few days. In addition to the just posted toads in amplexus\u00a0and the dipper chicks, some things seen were: A Cliff Swallow peeking out of its nest; A marmot contemplating (&#8220;You disparaged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13556\">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":[9,10,18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-bugs","category-herptiles","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556","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=13556"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13618,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions\/13618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}