{"id":30521,"date":"2021-05-09T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30521"},"modified":"2021-05-09T07:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T14:00:36","slug":"buddies-with-buds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30521","title":{"rendered":"Buddies with buds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Three months ago, I posted <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29977\">Antler rhythms<\/a>, a discussion with pictures of the white-tailed deer&#8217;s annual cycle of: antler buds, velvet covered growth, hardening and loss of velvet,\u00a0and antler loss. Concluding it was a picture of a buck showing the recent scar of a shed antler. A few days ago. three bucks visited, each showed fresh antler buds. The cycle begins again, and Cynthia Fraser recorded it.<\/p>\n<p>A young buck bends down to graze and reveals its antler buds.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30525\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/whitetaileddeer210504asccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, there were three buddies each with antler buds.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30524\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/whitetaileddeer210504bsccf.jpg\" alt=\"v\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deer are a skittish lot and something spooked them. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30523\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/whitetaileddeer210504cs2ccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With white tails raised, off they go. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30522\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/whitetaileddeer210504dsccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Cynthia Fraser&#8217;s pictures are used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Three months ago, I posted Antler rhythms, a discussion with pictures of the white-tailed deer&#8217;s annual cycle of: antler buds, velvet covered growth, hardening and loss of velvet,\u00a0and antler loss. Concluding it was a picture of a buck showing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30521\">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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30521","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=30521"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30543,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30521\/revisions\/30543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}