{"id":15376,"date":"2015-10-30T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T21:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15376"},"modified":"2015-10-30T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T22:29:12","slug":"october-goulash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15376","title":{"rendered":"October goulash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is an end-of-the-month collection of nine images, none of which rated a posting on its own.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In its winter plumage, a Horned Grebe does not look as grand as when it’s in its breeding plumage<\/a>.
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I enjoyed the contrast between the youth of the juvenile heron and the decrepitude of the ancient dock.
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When spooked, many animals face the choice of whether to flee, fight or freeze. This chipmunk froze in the hope that it wouldn’t be noticed. It stayed this way for a while before bolting.
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A Kingfisher dived, entered the water on the left, but emerged without a fish.
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A juvenile gull is not high on the list of exciting wildlife observations, yet I liked the view of a black-and-white bird seen against the wine-coloured leaves of October’s Red Osier Dogwood.
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We think of colourful fall leaves on trees and on the ground, But what about\u00a0the leaves\u00a0under water? Here a dipper is probing the creek’s bounty amidst a scene of submerged autumnal\u00a0leaves.
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That a male Shadow Darner was still hunting in mid-October was unexpected.
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A Ring-billed Gull coming in for a landing tips back, spreads its tail, and deploys is alulae.
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Carmine dominates as the Varied Thrush visits rowan berries.
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  This is an end-of-the-month collection of nine images, none of which rated a posting on its own.\u00a0 In its winter plumage, a Horned Grebe does not look as grand as when it’s in its breeding plumage. I enjoyed the … Continue reading →<\/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-15376","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\/15376","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=15376"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15428,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15376\/revisions\/15428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}