{"id":19502,"date":"2017-01-31T11:11:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T19:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19502"},"modified":"2017-02-02T16:58:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:58:04","slug":"january-goulash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19502","title":{"rendered":"January goulash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is an end-of-the-month collection of images, none of which has had a posting of its own.<\/p>\n

Each winter, we hope\u00a0to see irruptive species, birds whose southward migration is sufficiently erratic that on any given year they may or may not appear. There are perhaps a dozen-and-a-half such species that one sees only every so often. This has not been a good year to see\u00a0irruptive species. I saw a\u00a0flock of\u00a0Pine Siskins<\/a>\u00a0last November, a half-dozen\u00a0Bohemian Waxwings this month, and this lone Pine Grosbeak. Slim pickings, indeed, for this winter.
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The Belted Kingfisher is a permanent resident and a frequent visitor along the lakeshore.
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I see a Pileated Woodpecker maybe once a month, but I cannot recall seeing two together before. The one on the left is an adult, but the dark eye of the one on the right indicates that it is a juvenile.\u00a0
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At only a tenth the weight of the Pileated is the Downy Woodpecker. It is not seen as often.
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Throughout a year, I see many birds and mammals and many of\u00a0their young. Yet, I rarely have seen a dead animal. I guess that nature normally cleans them up quickly. This dead Long-tailed Weasel could not have been cleaned up by nature until it was first fished out a\u00a0toilet where it had drowned.
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Distinctly more alive is this female Bighorn Sheep.
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In late January a year ago, I managed to get a picture of Double-crested Cormorant expressing itself (Now hear this<\/a>). It has happened again.
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