{"id":25203,"date":"2018-11-20T08:18:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T16:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25203"},"modified":"2018-11-20T08:18:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T16:18:52","slug":"wildlife-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25203","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25205\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25205\" class=\"wp-image-25205 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/coyote181107s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These coyotes were seen elsewhere last week.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Birds visit my yard; Deer visit my yard; But Sunday&#8217;s visitors were unusual: two coyotes followed by two ruffed grouse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Upon spotting me, the coyotes quickly vanished into the woods without the courtesy of posing for portraits &#8212; so I illustrate the species with two seen elsewhere the week before.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike coyotes, grouse believe they cannot be seen if they don&#8217;t move, and this makes them much easier to photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Two ruffed grouse sit invisibly in a thicket on the edge of my yard.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25206\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/grouse181118s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Birds visit my yard; Deer visit my yard; But Sunday&#8217;s visitors were unusual: two coyotes followed by two ruffed grouse.\u00a0 Upon spotting me, the coyotes quickly vanished into the woods without the courtesy of posing for portraits &#8212; so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25203\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25203","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=25203"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25222,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25203\/revisions\/25222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}