{"id":21922,"date":"2017-09-16T08:12:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T15:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21922"},"modified":"2017-09-16T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T15:12:13","slug":"bears-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21922","title":{"rendered":"Bears feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of regular visits to a local creek, I managed some clear views of a family of Black Bears feeding on the bountiful Kokanee. The cubs are now old enough to catch fish on their own.<\/p>\n<p>The sow and her two cubs wander alongside a creek filled with Kokanee.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21924\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/blackbear170915asDMF.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yum, yum.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21926\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/blackbear170915bs2DMF.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Kokanee don&#8217;t like being caught. This one tried to escape the sow, only to head towards a cub.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21927\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/blackbear170915cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of a portrait of a toddler caressing its favourite stuffed animal.\u00a0<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21923\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/blackbear170915as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The creek didn&#8217;t supply a doggy bag, so the sow carries away leftovers in her mouth.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21928\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/blackbear170915ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mommy, mommy, look at me, I really did it! I caught my own fish!&#8221;<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21925\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/blackbear170915bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; After weeks of regular visits to a local creek, I managed some clear views of a family of Black Bears feeding on the bountiful Kokanee. The cubs are now old enough to catch fish on their own. The sow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21922\">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":[19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fish","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21922","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=21922"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21933,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21922\/revisions\/21933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}