{"id":28315,"date":"2020-03-09T09:49:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T16:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28315"},"modified":"2020-03-09T09:49:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T16:49:29","slug":"whither-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28315","title":{"rendered":"Whither spring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What are the present intimations of spring?<\/p>\n<p>This snow-flecked Red Squirrel should be entering its summer moult about now.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28326\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/squirrel200306s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The arrival of Dark-eyed Juncos indicates spring is imminent&#8230;,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28319\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/darkeyedjunko200302s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>as does the arrival of a Belted Kingfisher (with fish), which will be here through into fall.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28320\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kingfisher200303a.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, robins have arrived for spring only to find it snowing on their crab apples. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28317\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/robin200308as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sighting of a Downy Woodpecker merely tells us that it isn&#8217;t yet summer.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28316\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/downywoodpecker200301s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What are the present intimations of spring? This snow-flecked Red Squirrel should be entering its summer moult about now. The arrival of Dark-eyed Juncos indicates spring is imminent&#8230;, as does the arrival of a Belted Kingfisher (with fish), which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28315\">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-28315","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\/28315","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=28315"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28334,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28315\/revisions\/28334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}