{"id":309,"date":"2010-09-24T07:46:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=309"},"modified":"2010-12-26T15:34:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T23:34:13","slug":"wallow-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Watching a wallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is likely that only the animals know where to find all the forest wallows around the Lake. A wallow is worth watching just to see its visitors. Over a period of a few days in late August, this wallow in the south Selkirks attracted bear, elk, deer, and a bob cat. The bear climbed right in, the elk (cows) drank, but the bobcat and deer (a yearling male) just wandered by.<\/p>\n<p>The Kootenay-Lake\u00a0Website offers a discussion and more pictures of local <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/mammals\/carnivores\/bbears\/index.html\">black bears<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/mammals\/hooves\/elk\/index.html\">elk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/mammals\/hooves\/whitetaileddeer\/index.html\">white-tailed deer<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/mammals\/carnivores\/cats\/index.html\">cats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-312\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bear_spa100825.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bear_spa100825.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bear_spa100825-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-311\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bobcat100824.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bobcat100824.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bobcat100824-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-310\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/elk100822s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/elk100822s.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/elk100822s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-313\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/whitetailM100822s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/whitetailM100822s.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/whitetailM100822s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is likely that only the animals know where to find all the forest wallows around the Lake. A wallow is worth watching just to see its visitors. Over a period of a few days in late August, this wallow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=309\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-309","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\/309","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=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}