{"id":31725,"date":"2022-04-30T08:41:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T15:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31725"},"modified":"2022-04-30T08:41:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T15:41:48","slug":"aprils-goulash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31725","title":{"rendered":"April’s goulash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is a collection of April’s pictures that lacked postings of their own. It has been cold and rainy, yet there are summer migrants around. And the insect life has begun.<\/p>\n

A Western Bluebird couple examines a nest box to see if it will be suitable for their family.
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A Black-capped Chickadee works with its partner to carve a cavity nest.
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Next are two mammals that are both members of the ground squirrel family. The larger of the two is this one, the Yellow-bellied Marmot, which weighs from 3 to 5 kg. It lives and has its burrows in talus slopes.
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Here, a second member of the family is the Columbian Ground Squirrel. But it is much smaller than the marmot, and weighs only about 0.3 to 0.8 kg, so about a tenth of the marmot’s weight. This creature carves cavities in fields of dirt.
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A just arrived female Osprey looks down from a perch and calls for her partner.
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The White-crowned Sparrow is also a summer migrant.
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Another summer visitor is the Red-naped Sapsucker. It carves the lines of bark piercings in trees, but here it is apparently looking for grubs in a utility pole.
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Bombus mixtus<\/em> approaches some pieris japonica<\/em>.
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