{"id":34226,"date":"2025-01-31T19:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34226"},"modified":"2025-01-31T19:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:21:17","slug":"january-goulash-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34226","title":{"rendered":"January goulash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a selection of pictures from January 2025 that didn&#8217;t have a posting of their own.<\/p>\n<p>We went looking for Bald Eagles and found three different pairs sitting close beside their nests. This is perhaps the female and her partner was on an adjacent tree.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34228\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/baldeagle250126bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These two eagles were nearby their nest.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34229\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/baldeagle250126as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As were these two. All show pairing in anticipation of raising a family. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34232\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/baldeagle250126accfs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A mountain whitefish swam by in the shallows. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34231\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mountainwhitefish250125s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"1768\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mountainwhitefish250125s2.jpg 1768w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mountainwhitefish250125s2-768x225.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mountainwhitefish250125s2-1536x449.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1768px) 100vw, 1768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Much less common than the Downy, this Hairy Woodpecker spent its morning pecking its way to the top of several dead lakeshore trees. Photo by Cynthia.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34230\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/hairywoodpecker250125ccfs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was one of two Pileated Woodpeckers feasting on Rowen berries. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34236\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/pileatedwoodpecker250118ccfs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is a selection of pictures from January 2025 that didn&#8217;t have a posting of their own. We went looking for Bald Eagles and found three different pairs sitting close beside their nests. This is perhaps the female and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34226\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34226","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=34226"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34238,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34226\/revisions\/34238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}