{"id":18191,"date":"2016-08-04T07:22:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T14:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18191"},"modified":"2016-08-24T08:21:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:21:39","slug":"judgementally-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18191","title":{"rendered":"Diminished judgement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To the list of useful devices for good wildlife photography, I may have added one more: supply\u00a0your subject with\u00a0a (possibly hallucinogenic) mushroom.<\/p>\n<p>The Columbian Ground Squirrel is a skittish little beastie that is forever\u00a0on guard and ready to vanish. So, it was unexpected that one nonchalantly allowed me to move closer and closer as I snapped pictures. When it finally had had enough of this encroachment, its departure was chaotic, heading first one way, then the other, then hiding\u00a0its head in its tail. All of this was rather odd.<\/p>\n<p>It was only when I looked at the pictures that I realized it had been eating a mushroom. Might this have affected its judgement?<\/p>\n<p>A Columbian Ground Squirrel finishes off its mushroom in a state of some confusion.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18192\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/columbiangroundsqurirrel160802as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; To the list of useful devices for good wildlife photography, I may have added one more: supply\u00a0your subject with\u00a0a (possibly hallucinogenic) mushroom. The Columbian Ground Squirrel is a skittish little beastie that is forever\u00a0on guard and ready to vanish. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18191\">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-18191","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\/18191","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=18191"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18449,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191\/revisions\/18449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}