{"id":31783,"date":"2022-05-15T14:07:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T21:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31783"},"modified":"2022-05-15T14:07:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T21:07:27","slug":"a-good-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31783","title":{"rendered":"A good day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was sunny, so time was spent wandering. The pictures are in the order they were taken.<\/p>\n<p>The first shot of the day was a muskrat.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31787\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/muskrat220511s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then came a Wild Turkey in display with a female indicating a willingness.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31788\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/turkey220511s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were many wild ducks seen, but the only I took notice of was the Cinnamon Teal.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31784\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cinniamonteal220511s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A number of types of swallows were photographed, but the only spectacular picture was a Tree Swallow. This male had just fed a female in a nest box.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31785\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/treeswallow220511s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first bear that was seen was a black bear with two brown cubs up a tree.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31789\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/blackbear220511cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Probably the highlight was two fighting Turkey Vultures fighting over a female. They went at it for about 2 minutes. One male arrived with her, and one left with her, but I could not tell them apart and so it is not clear if she left with the original male or not.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31791\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/vulture220511s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then there was another female black bear.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31790\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/blackbear220511as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s cub.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31786\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/blackbear220511bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It was sunny, so time was spent wandering. The pictures are in the order they were taken. The first shot of the day was a muskrat.\u00a0 Then came a Wild Turkey in display with a female indicating a willingness. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31783\">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-31783","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\/31783","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=31783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31794,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31783\/revisions\/31794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}