{"id":21459,"date":"2017-08-02T20:13:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T03:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21459"},"modified":"2017-08-03T02:50:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T09:50:18","slug":"bear-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21459","title":{"rendered":"Bear is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, I noticed that Black Bears arrived in my yard on August 1<sup>st<\/sup>. This year it was virtually the same: August 2<sup>nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>I live at the valley bottom, so whether the bears arrive at this time of year or not at all, depends upon the availability of berries in the subalpine. I do not know about this year&#8217;s huckleberry crop, but something has driven the bears into the valley.<\/p>\n<p>A Black Bear clings to the trunk of a wild cherry tree.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/blackbear170802as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21460\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Last year, I noticed that Black Bears arrived in my yard on August 1st. This year it was virtually the same: August 2nd. I live at the valley bottom, so whether the bears arrive at this time of year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21459\">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-21459","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\/21459","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=21459"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21487,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459\/revisions\/21487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}