{"id":34260,"date":"2025-02-22T09:49:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T17:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34260"},"modified":"2025-02-22T09:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T17:54:11","slug":"pine-marten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34260","title":{"rendered":"Pine marten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This posting just celebrates a visit of a marten. Of the two species of martens found in B.C., this is probably the pine marten.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The marten travels over the snow. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34263\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/marten250209dCCFs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It climbs a rowan tree and looks down. Mind you, it was only rarely looking in the direction of humans. Photo by Alistair.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34265\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/marten250209cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks out between the branches. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34292\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/marten250209eCCFs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But, now and then it did size us up. Its claws are really evident. Photo by Alistair. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34291\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/marten250209as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Repeatedly, the lithe marten demonstrated acrobatic climbing skills. Notice the role its tail and claws play. Photo by Cynthia. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34267\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/marten250209aCCFs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am coming down now. Photo by Dorothy.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34261\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/marten250209aDMFs2.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 posting just celebrates a visit of a marten. Of the two species of martens found in B.C., this is probably the pine marten.\u00a0 The marten travels over the snow. Photo by Cynthia. It climbs a rowan tree and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34260\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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-34260","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\/34260","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34260"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34337,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34260\/revisions\/34337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}