{"id":33680,"date":"2024-11-23T08:02:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T16:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33680"},"modified":"2024-11-23T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T16:02:12","slug":"2000th-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33680","title":{"rendered":"2,000th<\/sup> posting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the 2,000th<\/sup><\/strong> posting to this blog site, Exploring Kootenay Lake.<\/p>\n

For this occasion, I am showing some of my favourite pictures, by year, from the last 500 postings. After all, you already can see some of my favourites from the first 1,500th<\/sup> posting<\/a>s, which was made five and a half years ago on 2019 April 10. However, the present posting includes some images from later in 2019.<\/p>\n

As before, my favourites tend to involve the interaction of two or more individuals or a less common natural phenomenon. Included are photographs from other close family members that also appeared on the blog.<\/p>\n

2019<\/b>
\nGreat-Horned-Owl chicks are still in their natal down.
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Female Spotted Sandpipers are the sexual aggressors; males are not. Here, two females are battling for territorial rights.
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A father Pileated Woodpecker (left) is instructing his son (right) on how to find food.
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2020<\/b>
\nA mother yellow-bellied marmot is suckling her pup.
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A feisty Rufous Hummingbird battles another (unseen) rufous for access to food.
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A dipper parent brings grubs for its chicks.
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An adult Osprey brings a fish to its three excited chicks. Photo by Finn Grathwol.
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Two robber flies mate.
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2021<\/b>
\nMale and female clearwing moths mate on the wing.
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Bald Eagle chicks sit in a nest with their parent.
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As testosterone rises in the fall, a young white-tailed deer jousts with his father.\u00a0
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A mother elk suckles her young. Photo by Cynthia Fraser.
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2022<\/b>
\nCynthia Fraser caught this shot of a battle between an osprey (top) and an eagle (bottom).
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A very wide-angled lens captures a cloud bow and its reflection. Photo by (son) Alistair.
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In one of the last meals before migration, an osprey father brings a fish for his family.
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2023<\/b>
\nA bobcat stops by to scrounge at a bird feeder, but encounters humans.
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A female grizzly bear with exotropic eyes swallows a fish.
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This (somewhat confusing) picture shows a white-tailed deer mother suckling her fawn.
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A weasel has killed an injured robin and then jumps off a deck to eat it below.\u00a0
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2024<\/b>
\nSwans mate far to the north, but courting sometimes happens here. Photo by Cynthia Fraser.
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This mating of male and female Tree Swallows lasted about one second.
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A momentary scene of a wing’s underside looks like a headdress on a flicker.
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A blue heron lacks teeth so it swallowed the mallard chick whole.
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A locally rarely seen ibis takes to the air.
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A black bear picks a Kokanee salmon from a local creek.
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The Long-billed Dowitcher migrates the long distance between the Arctic Ocean and Mexico twice a year. On its way, it occasionally stops by here to feast.
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This is an aurora borealis on October 10. The existence of all life on Earth is a consequence of the appearance of auroras. Photo by Cynthia Fraser.
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A Ring-billed Gull manipulates a small fish before swallowing it.
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