{"id":35802,"date":"2026-08-27T17:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T00:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35802"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T00:40:29","slug":"walk-at-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35802","title":{"rendered":"Walk at park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was an interesting day for a walk in Kokanee Park. I saw: a heron, a woodpecker, and a black bear.<\/p>\n<p>A Great Blue Heron in breeding feathers (unlike the pre-breeding plumage show <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier<\/a>).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35805\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/heron260827s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have rarely managed a Pileated Woodpecker flying. This one is male.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35804\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pileatedwoodpecker260827s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The best observation was a fishing black bear in the spawning channel.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35803\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bear260827s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It was an interesting day for a walk in Kokanee Park. I saw: a heron, a woodpecker, and a black bear. A Great Blue Heron in breeding feathers (unlike the pre-breeding plumage show earlier). I have rarely managed a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35802\">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-35802","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\/35802","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=35802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35809,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35802\/revisions\/35809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}