{"id":32863,"date":"2023-10-04T19:01:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T02:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32863"},"modified":"2023-10-05T17:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T00:32:37","slug":"weasel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32863","title":{"rendered":"Weasel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thud. A robin collided with a window and fell to the deck. What followed was unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>Soon a Short-tailed Weasel found the robin. Now it wasn&#8217;t clear whether the robin was dead or just stunned, but the weasel quickly settled the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Short-tailed Weasel is a prolific land predator. But, it is cautious, usually hunts at night, stays well hidden, and is really fast. It is thus not an easy animal to photograph.<\/p>\n<p>This portrait and the following two were taken through a window. It seemed to know it was being watched, but was determined to get away with its prize.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32868\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/weasel231003c2s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The object was to now move the robin to some other place and to eat it there. The deck of the house was not sufficiently private.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32873\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/weasel231003bs-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It grabbed the bird by its beak to try to move it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32865\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/weasel231003as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The weasel stopped and looked around. It was remarkably cautious.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32872\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/weasel231003aHdmf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This blurry shot would normally be a reject, but not this time. The weasel began racing toward the edge of the deck and was in the air with its prize. Its striped abdomen was a surprise.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32867\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/weasel231003ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This fast moving weasel then jumped off the edge of the deck, so as to have its feast below.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32869\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/weasel231003es2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Thud. A robin collided with a window and fell to the deck. What followed was unexpected. Soon a Short-tailed Weasel found the robin. Now it wasn&#8217;t clear whether the robin was dead or just stunned, but the weasel quickly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32863\">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-32863","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\/32863","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=32863"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32882,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32863\/revisions\/32882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}