{"id":14553,"date":"2015-08-05T16:03:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T23:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14553"},"modified":"2015-08-05T21:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T04:06:52","slug":"two-deer-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14553","title":{"rendered":"Two-deer day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Around the Lake, there are five species within\u00a0the deer family (the cervids): moose, elk, caribou, mule deer, white-tailed deer, but only the latter two have the word, deer, attached to their names. It was nice to see both deer on one day. Certainly, the white-tailed deer is common in the valleys, but the mule deer is usually only seen higher on the mountain sides.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first deer spotted was a mule-deer buck. It is named for its large (mule-like) ears, but is perhaps more readily identified by its black-tipped rope-like tail. The antlers of this one are still in velvet.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14556\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/muledeer150730s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then a white-tailed doe was spotted in my yard. After taking pictures and enjoying her company for a short time, we left her alone to browse.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14555\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/whitetaileddeer150730as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When spotted again at twilight, it became clear that she was browsing for two.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14554\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/whitetaileddeer150730bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Around the Lake, there are five species within\u00a0the deer family (the cervids): moose, elk, caribou, mule deer, white-tailed deer, but only the latter two have the word, deer, attached to their names. It was nice to see both deer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14553\">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-14553","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\/14553","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=14553"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14590,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553\/revisions\/14590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}