{"id":35707,"date":"2026-08-02T10:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35707"},"modified":"2026-08-02T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:24:40","slug":"black-grizzly-bears-owls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35707","title":{"rendered":"Black Grizzly Bears &#038; Owls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For many years I presented wildlife talks for the summer speaker\u2019s series at the Nature Centre of Kokanee Creek Park. My last talk was on Wildlife Mating in 2024 with my daughter, Cynthia.<\/p>\n<p>This week I am again sharing the stage with Cynthia. She will show Owls and I will show (the rarely seen) Black Grizzly Bears. We invite you to join us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><b>Title:<\/b> Black Grizzly Bears &amp; Owls<br \/>\n<b> Speakers:<\/b> Alistair Fraser &amp; Cynthia Fraser<br \/>\n<b>Location:<\/b> Nature Centre, Kokanee Creek Park<br \/>\n<b>Date:<\/b> Thursday 6 Aug. 2026<br \/>\n<b>Time:<\/b> 7:00 p.m.<br \/>\n<b>Donation:<\/b> sought $5 to Nature Centre (not to us)<\/p>\n<p>A black grizzly bear <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21011\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/grizzly160929a2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Great Horned Owl chick learning to fly. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34632\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/greathornedowl250524cCCFs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For many years I presented wildlife talks for the summer speaker\u2019s series at the Nature Centre of Kokanee Creek Park. My last talk was on Wildlife Mating in 2024 with my daughter, Cynthia. This week I am again sharing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35707\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35707","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\/35707","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=35707"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35725,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35707\/revisions\/35725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}