{"id":1970,"date":"2011-06-18T19:24:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T02:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2011-06-22T00:45:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T07:45:40","slug":"otter-obs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"Otter obs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>River Otters are here, but I only get to see one on the Lake every year or possibly every year and a half.<\/p>\n<p>In fairness to the otter I wait until it comes to me. If it were a beaver or muskrat, I would know where to look to find one, but with the otter\u2014well, I haven\u2019t a clue, so I only see it when it visits me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; margin-top: 4px; margin-left: 8px; width: 280px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">The Kootenay Lake website offers other, and better pictures, of local <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/mammals\/carnivores\/otters\/index.html\">River Otters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As usual when it comes, it only stops by for a few minutes. It hops out of the Lake, frolics on a dock and is soon gone again out onto the Lake. Maybe someday I will figure out where it lives, but for now, I must be content with an occasional visit.<\/p>\n<p>An otter stops by a dock as a log floats by.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1971\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/otter110618s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And of course I have to include a picture which shows the result of the rising water.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1972\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/highwater110618s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>River Otters are here, but I only get to see one on the Lake every year or possibly every year and a half. In fairness to the otter I wait until it comes to me. If it were a beaver &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1970\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-1970","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\/1970","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=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}