{"id":16223,"date":"2016-01-30T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T22:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16223"},"modified":"2016-01-30T14:38:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T22:38:52","slug":"goose-for-coyote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16223","title":{"rendered":"Goose for coyote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a goose in this picture that is soon likely to satisfy a coyote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting that, despite the large number of Canada Geese to be seen around the Lake, one rarely sees a dead or injured one. Goose <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1785\">fecundity<\/a> produces many chicks each year, but what happens to this plentitude? I have only seen one goose being <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13215\">eaten<\/a> along the shore.<\/p>\n<p>However, for the last few weeks I have been watching a good candidate for a forthcoming meal: a goose with a broken wing. As it cannot fly, it is usually alone, but sometimes joins other geese near the shore. While the flock will move farther onto a lawn, Broken Wing finds it dangerous to move more than a few metres from the water&#8217;s edge. While it can swim satisfactorily, I suspect that it won&#8217;t be long before a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16193\">coyote<\/a> gets it.<\/p>\n<p>The goose with the broken wing is on the left.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16224\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/goose160129s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There is a goose in this picture that is soon likely to satisfy a coyote.\u00a0 It is interesting that, despite the large number of Canada Geese to be seen around the Lake, one rarely sees a dead or injured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16223\">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-16223","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\/16223","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=16223"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16230,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16223\/revisions\/16230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}