{"id":32488,"date":"2023-04-30T18:24:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T01:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32488"},"modified":"2023-04-30T18:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T01:24:35","slug":"april-goulash-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32488","title":{"rendered":"April goulash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a small collection of pictures taken this April which didn&#8217;t have a posting of their own.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Shrike foraged in Kokanee Park for rodents for about three weeks this month before heading north.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32492\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/northernshrike230415as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The shrike rarely sings but one time in mid-month it let forth. Photo by Cynthia Fraser.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32497\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/northernshrike230413aCCFs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then it flew in search of prey. Photo for Cynthia Fraser.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32496\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/northernshrike230413bCCFs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This picture of a toadlet was taken on April 20, which is surprisingly early.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32489\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/toadlet230420s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Canada Goose parents supervise their seven chicks.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32491\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/goose230430s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Downy Woodpecker was foraging for comestibles.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32490\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/downywoodpecker230430s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This confusing picture of Tree Swallows shows the changing of the food supplier for chicks. One parent is leaving the nest and another is arriving. The job is endless.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32494\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/treeswallow230430as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is a small collection of pictures taken this April which didn&#8217;t have a posting of their own. The Northern Shrike foraged in Kokanee Park for rodents for about three weeks this month before heading north. The shrike rarely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32488\">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":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-herptiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32488","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=32488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32499,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32488\/revisions\/32499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}