{"id":23772,"date":"2018-06-14T14:24:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T21:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23772"},"modified":"2018-06-14T14:24:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T21:24:21","slug":"sub-alpine-delights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23772","title":{"rendered":"Sub-alpine delights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are delights in the high country that are unknown, or uncommon, in the valleys. Items, below, were seen a few days ago at an elevation of about 1600 metres.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Western Anemone (<em>Pulsatilla occidentalis<\/em>).\u00a0Another term for the plant, the\u00a0old man of the mountain, makes no sense until one sees what it looks like after it has gone to seed. The name, <em>anenome<\/em>, comes from the\u00a0Greek and while it just means\u00a0windflower, it translates\u00a0literally as <em>the\u00a0daughter of the wind<\/em> (from <em>anemos<\/em> for wind), apparently so named\u00a0because the flowers open only when the wind blows.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23774\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/anenome180612s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Olive-sided Flycatcher breeds in the high country where it is usually found perched in wildfire-damaged openings as it hunts for insects.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23775\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/olivesidedflycatcher180612s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Does the chipmunk qualify for this group? I have seen it at the bottom of valleys, but the usual place I see one is above 1000 metres.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23773\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/chipmonk180612s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Red-tailed Hawk is an altitudinal migrant. It is found in the valleys in the cold weather, but in the warm season it moves to the high country, a vast space where it is more difficult to find. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23777\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/redtailedhawk180612s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The high country can sometimes even provide a view of the trees around one&#8217;s home in the valley.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/lakeview180612s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23784\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An even more interesting sub-alpine resident will appear in a forthcoming posting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There are delights in the high country that are unknown, or uncommon, in the valleys. Items, below, were seen a few days ago at an elevation of about 1600 metres. This is the Western Anemone (Pulsatilla occidentalis).\u00a0Another term for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23772\">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":[9,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-mammals","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23772","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=23772"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23791,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23772\/revisions\/23791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}