{"id":19678,"date":"2017-02-27T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19678"},"modified":"2017-02-27T19:48:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T03:48:22","slug":"tracks-in-snow-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19678","title":{"rendered":"Tracks in snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0an overnight dusting of snow, I like to look for animal tracks in my yard to discover what creatures share my space. Sometimes no one comes; sometimes snow keeps falling and covers the evidence. Now and then I see things.<\/p>\n<p>I am uncertain as\u00a0to this visitor, but I think it is a snowshoe hare.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19682\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/hare170225s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is squirrel. It is heading from bottom to top. As it bounds, its smaller forepaws land first and its larger hindpaws swing past them.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19680\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/squirrel170227s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Raccoon tracks are really distinctive: each adjacent\u00a0pair shows a larger hindpaw and a smaller forepaw. Its distinctive toes are evident, as are the tracks of a deer that crosses its path.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19681\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/raccoon170227s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were a great many deer tracks in the yard. It was as if I were played\u00a0host to a cervine symposium. Whatever the agenda, it is clear that some deer did a great deal of foot-dragging.\u00a0<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19679\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/whitetaileddeer170227s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; After\u00a0an overnight dusting of snow, I like to look for animal tracks in my yard to discover what creatures share my space. Sometimes no one comes; sometimes snow keeps falling and covers the evidence. Now and then I see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19678\">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-19678","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\/19678","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=19678"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19688,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19678\/revisions\/19688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}