{"id":34652,"date":"2025-07-01T09:49:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34652"},"modified":"2025-07-01T09:49:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:49:55","slug":"june-goulash-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34652","title":{"rendered":"June goulash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a smattering of June pictures that were not previously posted.<\/p>\n<p>Our magpie likes open meadows with a few bushes, so they are not often found in this region. A few here occupy the grass lands of Procter.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34654\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/magpie250630s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We certainly have muskrats, but they are infrequently seen.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34655\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/muskrat250622s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An osprey carries a fish to its nest.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34656\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/osprey250624s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A mother mallard with her six chicks. One is nearly hidden behind another one.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34659\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mallardchicks250630s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A mother merganser with ten chicks (probably from two families).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34658\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/meganser250630s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The prize of this small collection is the common Song Sparrow for this one has, what I think is, a katydid in its bill.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34657\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/songsparrow250630s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; This is a smattering of June pictures that were not previously posted. Our magpie likes open meadows with a few bushes, so they are not often found in this region. A few here occupy the grass lands of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34652\">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-34652","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\/34652","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=34652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34662,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652\/revisions\/34662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}