{"id":18128,"date":"2016-08-01T14:25:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T21:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18128"},"modified":"2016-08-24T08:22:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:22:47","slug":"bears-in-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18128","title":{"rendered":"Bears in trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a rather large number of Black Bears around the valley bottoms this year, both scrounging on the ground and in the trees.<\/p>\n<p>This is third posting showing a bear in a tree that I have made in the last two weeks. There are few times of the year when one gets to see this activity, and, indeed, rather few years in a decade. The last time I remember such a glut of bears in trees was <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6147\">four years ago<\/a>. I wonder if this has been a particularly poor year for huckleberries on the mountainside.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0chocolate Black Bear\u00a0was about five metres up a cherry tree. It didn&#8217;t like being watched.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18129\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/blackbear160801bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There seems to be a rather large number of Black Bears around the valley bottoms this year, both scrounging on the ground and in the trees. This is third posting showing a bear in a tree that I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18128\">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-18128","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\/18128","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=18128"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18451,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18128\/revisions\/18451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}