{"id":16735,"date":"2016-04-07T15:30:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T22:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16735"},"modified":"2016-04-07T16:11:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T23:11:20","slug":"wednesdays-roving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16735","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday&#8217;s roving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My typical\u00a0posting features\u00a0a species or a process. But, today it is merely a grab bag of things seen while roving around yesterday with Derek Kite. The odd thing is that, rather than seeing interesting birds, all the good stuff was earthbound.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I have mentioned before that as far as I can tell marmots do little more than eat, sleep, mate, and bask. Now and then, they also try to stare down passers-by.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16739\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/marmot160406s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems that turtles also choose the marmot&#8217;s lifestyle. These two Painted Turtles climbed a short distance up a deadhead and then decided that was enough work for the day.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16737\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/turtles160406s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Columbian Ground Squirrel spends about two-thirds of its year underground. This peek must have been almost its first look outside.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16738\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/columbiangroundsquirrel160406s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Within ten metres of the ground squirrel were many glacier lilies. I suspect that the squirrel views them not as lovely, but as tasty.\u00a0<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16740\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/glacierlilly160406s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, while driving past Nelson&#8217;s\u00a0Cathedral of Mary Immaculate, I thought that the portico might offer an interesting site for a full-sphere panorama.\u00a0<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16736\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/RCcathedralNelson160408as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My typical\u00a0posting features\u00a0a species or a process. But, today it is merely a grab bag of things seen while roving around yesterday with Derek Kite. 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