{"id":35925,"date":"2026-10-26T09:17:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35925"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:17:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:17:49","slug":"bear-mountain-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35925","title":{"rendered":"Bear &#038; mountain ash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The season of black bears eating Kokanee has passed and the creek is now quiet. The bears haven&#8217;t yet gone into torpor, but are out and about seeking food to enable them to continue fattening before their long sleep.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One black bear found a mountain ash tree and decided to sample its berries.<\/p>\n<p>A black bear climbs the mountain ash and eyes the berries.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35927\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blackbear261024as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here, it has its tongue out and is about to eat the berries.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35926\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blackbear261024cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The season of black bears eating Kokanee has passed and the creek is now quiet. The bears haven&#8217;t yet gone into torpor, but are out and about seeking food to enable them to continue fattening before their long sleep.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35925\">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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35925","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\/35925","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=35925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35929,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35925\/revisions\/35929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}