{"id":1369,"date":"2011-04-09T17:57:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T00:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2011-04-15T11:54:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:54:47","slug":"muskrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"Muskrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The muskrat was the second wild mammal I encountered along this lakeshore when I was a small child: a muskrat often nested in a float from which we swam.\u00a0(The first encounter was with the squirrel).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; margin-top: 4px; margin-left: 8px; width: 240px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">The Kootenay Lake website offers other pictures of local <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/mammals\/rodents\/muskrats\/index.html\">muskrats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Muskrats abound around the Lake, but one of the best viewing places is the Nelson waterfront. The many steep rocky banks provide both a habitat for muskrats and a viewing platform for humans. The adjacent shallows offer underwater plants which provide most of the muskrat\u2019s diet (final picture).<\/p>\n<p>A muskrat foraging along the Nelson waterfront early Friday morning (April, 8).<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1370\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/muskrat110409as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1373\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/muskrat110408b2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"237\" \/><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1372\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/muskrat110408cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The muskrat was the second wild mammal I encountered along this lakeshore when I was a small child: a muskrat often nested in a float from which we swam.\u00a0(The first encounter was with the squirrel). The Kootenay Lake website offers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1369\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-1369","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\/1369","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=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}