{"id":27582,"date":"2019-10-31T06:03:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T13:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27582"},"modified":"2019-10-31T06:03:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T13:03:59","slug":"october-goulash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27582","title":{"rendered":"October goulash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a collection of images from this October, none of which has had a posting of its own. The month started slowly with many walks producing few good observations, but things improved towards month&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p>A dozen different species of gull have been seen occasionally, but only three are really common: Herring Gull, Ring-billed Gull, and California Gull. This is the California.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27539\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/californiagull191023s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I rarely see a House Sparrow (male on left, female on right), despite it being widespread and common across the continent. However, the bird is an urban junkie, and I am rural.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27583\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/housesparrow191028abs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Double-crested Cormorant had been seen a few times early in the month, but always swimming in distant waters. This one was nearby as it took its leave from a piling. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27584\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/cormorant191028as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Black-billed Magpie is a striking bird, but somewhat uncommon in this heavily forested region. So, getting a close shot of one flying past packing prey (a grasshopper) was a delight. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27536\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/magpie191014s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This iridescent wave cloud was seen the same day as the Bufflehead Duck&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27542\">iridescent feathers<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27586\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/iridescence191028s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A female elk resting in a forest was seen about an hour prior to the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27552\">elk exhaling steam fog<\/a>. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27585\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/elk191028ds2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is a collection of images from this October, none of which has had a posting of its own. The month started slowly with many walks producing few good observations, but things improved towards month&#8217;s end. A dozen different &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27582\">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":[9,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-mammals","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27582","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=27582"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27622,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27582\/revisions\/27622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}