{"id":347,"date":"2010-09-30T10:45:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T17:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=347"},"modified":"2010-12-26T15:24:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T23:24:26","slug":"up-the-lardeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Up the Lardeau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lardeau River drains into Kootenay Lake (well, after a brief passage through the Duncan River). The gravel road along the river from Meadow Creek to Trout Lake is worth travelling on a clear day in the early fall. Certainly, the scenery is spectacular, but as this is the time of the Kokanee spawning run, migrant Bald Eagles hold an annual convention. A few years ago, we counted 68 eagles (juveniles and adults) on this drive. Plus, there is always the much lesser chance of seeing grizzly bears.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s drive produced a paltry dozen adult Bald Eagles and one juvenile. But, the big treat was the grizzlies: a sow and two cubs. Below are a few of the delights (with the grizzlies at the bottom).<\/p>\n<p>The Kootenay-Lake\u00a0Website offers a discussion and more pictures of local <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/mammals\/carnivores\/gbears\/index.html\">grizzlies<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/birds\/raptors\/baldeagles\/index.html\">eagles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/falltrees100929s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/falltrees100929s.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/falltrees100929s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-349\" title=\"wildturkeys100929\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wildturkeys100929.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wildturkeys100929.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wildturkeys100929-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-350\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/eagle100929as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/eagle100929as.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/eagle100929as-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-351\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/eagle100929cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/eagle100929cs.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/eagle100929cs-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-352\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/grizzly100929as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/grizzly100929as.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/grizzly100929as-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-359\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/grizzly100929bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/grizzly100929bs2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/grizzly100929bs2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-354\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/grizzly100929cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/grizzly100929cs.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/grizzly100929cs-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lardeau River drains into Kootenay Lake (well, after a brief passage through the Duncan River). The gravel road along the river from Meadow Creek to Trout Lake is worth travelling on a clear day in the early fall. Certainly, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=347\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-347","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\/347","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=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}