{"id":17555,"date":"2016-06-12T10:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T17:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17555"},"modified":"2016-06-12T10:15:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T17:15:44","slug":"predator-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17555","title":{"rendered":"Predator mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Three days ago, I posted pictures of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17456\">Chestnut-backed Chickadees<\/a> parents bringing food to their chicks in a cavity nest. On\u00a0this first non-rainy day since, I returned\u00a0in the hope that the chicks would now be peeking out of the nest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All was quiet.<\/p>\n<p>There were neither chickadee parents nor chicks. Yet protruding from the cavity, was\u00a0the hind end of a dead weasel-like mammal. Its fur was matted as if by the previous day&#8217;s rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what this animal is. And while I can easily imagine it wanting to eat\u00a0those delectable chicks, what could have killed it\u00a0<em>in flagrante delicto<\/em>? I would have thought that\u00a0the chickadee parents would have been defenceless against it. Any insights are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>A small mammal died while raiding a chickadee nest. What is it? How was it killed?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17556\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/predator160612s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Three days ago, I posted pictures of Chestnut-backed Chickadees parents bringing food to their chicks in a cavity nest. On\u00a0this first non-rainy day since, I returned\u00a0in the hope that the chicks would now be peeking out of the nest.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17555\">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-17555","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\/17555","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=17555"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17563,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17555\/revisions\/17563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}