{"id":28229,"date":"2020-02-29T06:18:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T14:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28229"},"modified":"2020-02-29T06:18:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T14:18:18","slug":"february-goulash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28229","title":{"rendered":"February goulash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is a collection of images from this February, none of which has had a posting of its own.<\/p>\n

The Rough-legged Hawk is a winter resident that hunts for rodents.\u00a0
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Our smallest falcon, the kestrel, hunts in open habitats.
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I don’t have a bias that favours sighting birds. Yet, notwithstanding the skunk seen earlier<\/a>, most of the creatures I see are avian. Hiding in the forest is a White-tailed Doe in its winter pelage.
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This is one of two Ruffed Grouse that frequent my yard.\u00a0
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A Bald Eagle added a branch to the pair’s nest. Eagles have a compulsion to add material each year, and sometimes this results in a nest so massive that it topples the tree.
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The Song Sparrow is a common bird, but drabness renders it inconspicuous. It deserves to be celebrated now and then.
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The robin is also common, yet has a greater cachet and so does not require the same acknowledgment as the Song Sparrow. Here are four robins in a larch.
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This has been an really good winter for seeing Trumpeter Swans. Indeed, many pictures I have taken of them have just been discarded. Yet, I rather like this shot taken in the dim light of dawn.
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This is a male goldfinch in non-breeding plumage. The black feathers on the finch’s head are a sign of pending spring as it moults into its breeding plumage of a black cap and a yellow body.
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And this cutie is a female goldfinch.
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