{"id":1607,"date":"2011-05-09T21:25:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T04:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2011-05-15T06:23:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T13:23:03","slug":"spring-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1607","title":{"rendered":"Spring has arrived?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is nearly half\u2013past May and we are all looking for some evidence that there will be a spring this year. Today was sunny and warm, so I headed out to see how nature might have responded.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the evidence is presented below. It is not everything seen today, but is enough to suggest that maybe we have turned the corner on the seasons. The range of blossoms for insects to visit is still not large, so many visit dandelions that proliferated in the last day.<\/p>\n<p>Goslings accompany their parents out onto the Lake.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1608\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gosslings110509s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A stream violet grows in the woods.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1609\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/streamviolet110509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The colour of the Western Spring Azure (butterfly) is only apparent when its wings are spread in flight.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1610\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/azureblue110509s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A comma butterfly (a Hoary Comma?) lands on a Douglas\u2013fir.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1611\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/comma110508s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A female flesh fly visits a dandelion.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1612\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fleshfly110509s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A bald-faced hornet visits a dandelion.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1613\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/baldfacedhornet110509s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bombilius is a bee\u2013mimic fly seen mainly in the early spring.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1614\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bombilius110509s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first bumble bee\u00a0(a\u00a0<em style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; color: #444444; line-height: 1.5; font-style: italic; border: initial none initial;\">Bombus bifarius<\/em>)\u00a0I have seen this season.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1615\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bombusbifarius110509s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is nearly half\u2013past May and we are all looking for some evidence that there will be a spring this year. Today was sunny and warm, so I headed out to see how nature might have responded. Some of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1607\">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":[9,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-bugs","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","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=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}