{"id":3735,"date":"2011-12-21T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2012-01-01T17:08:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T01:08:37","slug":"roadside-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3735","title":{"rendered":"Roadside pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a nine-hour drive over six mountain passes to reach the Coast. The trip&#8217;s interest is increased by the sight of roadside animals. Along with Mule Deer, various ages of Bald Eagle, and many passerines, were a few for which proximity and traffic allowed pictures.<\/p>\n<p>A dozen female elk were seen grazing by the roadside near Manning Park. Here, two size up the biped.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3736\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/elk111219as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just east of Hope a Red-tailed Hawk sat in a tree. There were eagles farther along. Do they watch for road kill?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3738\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hawk111219as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were dozens of Trumpeter Swans grazing in a farmer&#8217;s field. The nicest shot was of two of them\u00a0calling\u00a0as they flew in to join the others.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3737\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/swans111219as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a nine-hour drive over six mountain passes to reach the Coast. The trip&#8217;s interest is increased by the sight of roadside animals. Along with Mule Deer, various ages of Bald Eagle, and many passerines, were a few for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3735\">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-3735","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\/3735","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=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions\/3803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}