{"id":33819,"date":"2024-09-22T20:25:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T03:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33819"},"modified":"2024-09-22T20:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T03:25:05","slug":"otters-return-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33819","title":{"rendered":"Otters return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just under two weeks ago a family of five otters visited a dock near me <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Otters return).<\/a>\u00a0 Today they returned to frolic and preen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two parents are preening one another while the pups frolic.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33822\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/otter240922cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it isn&#8217;t the least bit clear what they are doing.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33821\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/otter240922bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was actually rare that they were all facing the same way. Mind you, being short sighted, they were probably not particularly aware that they were being watched. I suspect that the upright two are the parents.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33820\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/otter240922as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Just under two weeks ago a family of five otters visited a dock near me (Otters return).\u00a0 Today they returned to frolic and preen.\u00a0 The two parents are preening one another while the pups frolic. Sometimes it isn&#8217;t the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33819\">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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33819","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=33819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33825,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33819\/revisions\/33825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}