{"id":14283,"date":"2015-07-18T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14283"},"modified":"2015-07-18T18:43:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T01:43:32","slug":"finally-dusky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14283","title":{"rendered":"Finally dusky &#038;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday&#8217;s foray into high-country wilderness produced some delights (already posted was the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14251\">Wesakachak<\/a>), some of which might be seen in the valleys, but are often easier to find\u00a0in the subalpine and alpine tundra.<\/p>\n<p>Primary among these was a Dusky Grouse. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10404\">Previously posted pictures of this grouse<\/a> were taken by Doug Thorburn. This female was a first for me. A male was also seen, but its pictures were not worth posting.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14284\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/duskygrouse150714bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spotted in the alpine tundra (albeit also found at the valley bottom) was a Columbian Ground Squirrel. It presented me with many poses, but the one I really liked was evocative of\u00a0a grass-chewing rustic.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14285\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/columbiangroundsquirrel150714as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Snowshoe Hare was feeding beside\u00a0a backroad. This is not a rabbit; this is not a bunny. Admire the large  white hind feet. The hare and the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10828\">pika<\/a> are our only indigenous lagomorphs. I don&#8217;t see either often enough.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14286\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hare150714as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, there was a Red-tailed Hawk. It was stationed near the tree line and looked towards the valley, almost as if the hawk were a sentinel at the entrance to the alpine tundra.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/redtailedhawk150714s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14297\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Last Tuesday&#8217;s foray into high-country wilderness produced some delights (already posted was the Wesakachak), some of which might be seen in the valleys, but are often easier to find\u00a0in the subalpine and alpine tundra. Primary among these was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14283\">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":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14283","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=14283"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14327,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14283\/revisions\/14327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}