{"id":16193,"date":"2016-01-29T15:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T23:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16193"},"modified":"2016-01-29T16:23:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T00:23:50","slug":"coyote-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16193","title":{"rendered":"Coyote season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, I made a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12761\">similar posting<\/a> about seeing coyotes in the valley bottoms primarily in the months of December through April. I was challenged by someone who rightly said that coyotes can be seen throughout the year. True, but I merely noted that this is when I usually see them. Presumably, they are mainly at higher elevations at\u00a0other times.<\/p>\n<p>A coyote wandered along a lakeside road but just ignored people and traffic &#8212; until I began watching it.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16195\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/coyote160126as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It promptly retreated to the beach. While I continued to watch it, the coyote looked back at me with a look of such distrust and disdain, that I wondered just what I, or my species, might be doing to deserve its contempt.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16194\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/coyote160126bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A year ago, I made a similar posting about seeing coyotes in the valley bottoms primarily in the months of December through April. I was challenged by someone who rightly said that coyotes can be seen throughout the year. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16193\">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-16193","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\/16193","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=16193"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16222,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16193\/revisions\/16222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}