{"id":31839,"date":"2022-05-31T10:37:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31839"},"modified":"2022-05-31T11:16:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:16:46","slug":"mays-goulash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31839","title":{"rendered":"May&#8217;s goulash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These are a few shots taken this May that didn&#8217;t have their own posting.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Shoveller is somewhat uncommon bird that is seen most often migrating north in the spring and south in the fall.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31841\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/shoveler220517s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of Nelson&#8217;s Great Horned Chicks photographed by Cynthia Fraser<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31842\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/greathornedowl220522sccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see otters very often, but here one is.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/otter220523s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31848\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A flotilla of Canada Geese in fog, but with no chicks.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31843\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/geese220528s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A juvenile Goshawk express itself.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31844\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/coopershawk220526s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In mid-April I saw a Black-capped Chickadee couple excavating a knot in a snag. By mid-May they were feeding chicks in the cavity. I have yet to see the chicks.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31840\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/chickadee220530as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; These are a few shots taken this May that didn&#8217;t have their own posting. The Northern Shoveller is somewhat uncommon bird that is seen most often migrating north in the spring and south in the fall. One of Nelson&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31839\">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-31839","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\/31839","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=31839"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31856,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31839\/revisions\/31856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}