{"id":25812,"date":"2019-03-07T05:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T13:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25812"},"modified":"2019-03-07T08:19:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T16:19:11","slug":"white-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25812","title":{"rendered":"White stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was looking for a White-winged Crossbill. It is a somewhat uncommon visitor to the region &#8212; and one I had been <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25728\">challenged<\/a> to find. I did find one, but, one somewhat obscured by branches.<\/p>\n<p>This crossbill doesn&#8217;t actually have white wings, but white bars or stripes on otherwise dark wings.<\/p>\n<p>Then I encountered something, other than a crossbill, with white stripes on a dark background.<\/p>\n<p>Seen first was a White-winged Crossbill sitting in a black hawthorn bush.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25813\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/whitewingedcrossbill190306s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I watched in trees for white stripes on birds, I glanced at the ground and found I was being watched by something else with white stripes. A skunk was eyeing me from only metres away.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25821\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/skunk190306as3.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The arched back and raised tail were a warning to me.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25816\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/skunk190306cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The skunk quickly decided that I posed no threat and merely wandered off.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25815\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/skunk190306ds2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What was this normally nocturnal animal doing out at midday? It was probably looking for a mate; this is the skunk&#8217;s breeding season.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/skunk190306es2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25834\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I was looking for a White-winged Crossbill. It is a somewhat uncommon visitor to the region &#8212; and one I had been challenged to find. I did find one, but, one somewhat obscured by branches. This crossbill doesn&#8217;t actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25812\">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-25812","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\/25812","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=25812"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25868,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25812\/revisions\/25868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}