{"id":30846,"date":"2021-07-08T16:42:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T23:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30846"},"modified":"2021-07-08T16:52:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T23:52:43","slug":"now-cool-whitetails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30846","title":{"rendered":"Now cool whitetails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am a hunter &#8212; but not the type who shoots to eat; I shoot to admire (and do so with a camera).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, if you want to understand some aspects of animal behaviour, you might consider hanging out with those who do shoot to eat. They see and track a great deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over a week ago, in the midst of the outrageous hot spell (mid to high 30s), I <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30777\">posted a picture<\/a> of a Steller&#8217;s Jay supposedly complaining about the temperature. Karen Pidcock then asked: &#8220;How do you think the wild creatures are holding up in this heat?&#8221; I didn&#8217;t know.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An internet search revealed that those who shoot to eat believe that deer hide in the shade rather than move about when the temperature is high. Indeed, I saw none during that hot spell. Yet now, with temperatures in the mid 20s, I saw three deer, and a more secretive male was seen twice. So, it seems, the deer are moving again.<\/p>\n<p>A male white-tailed deer looks at me over his shoulder. As his antler development seems a bit late for July, he is probably a (first year) spike deer.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30847\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/whitetaileddeer210708as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I am a hunter &#8212; but not the type who shoots to eat; I shoot to admire (and do so with a camera).\u00a0 However, if you want to understand some aspects of animal behaviour, you might consider hanging out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30846\">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-30846","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\/30846","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=30846"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30855,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30846\/revisions\/30855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}