{"id":4482,"date":"2012-03-24T07:52:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T14:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4482"},"modified":"2012-03-24T16:39:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T23:39:54","slug":"march-marmot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4482","title":{"rendered":"March marmot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sources suggest that the Yellow-bellied Marmot emerges from hibernation some time between mid April and early May\u00a0depending on climatic conditions and snowpack.<\/p>\n<p>What can\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">one\u00a0<\/span>conclude about this marmot photographed at noon on March 23<sup>rd<\/sup>? It was seen somewhat west of Nelson at a spot where I saw a\u00a0<a title=\"Marmot\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2506\">marmot\u00a0last August<\/a>. There may be a colony nearby.<\/p>\n<p>This Yellow-bellied Marmot blends in well with the dried grass of its surroundings.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4498\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/marot120323bs1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If I weren&#8217;t still groggy, I wouldn&#8217;t let you get this close. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4499\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/marot120323as1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sources suggest that the Yellow-bellied Marmot emerges from hibernation some time between mid April and early May\u00a0depending on climatic conditions and snowpack. What can\u00a0one\u00a0conclude about this marmot photographed at noon on March 23rd? It was seen somewhat west of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4482\">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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4482","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\/4482","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=4482"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4495,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions\/4495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}