{"id":4936,"date":"2012-04-23T18:42:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T01:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4936"},"modified":"2012-04-29T06:49:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T13:49:41","slug":"mammal-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4936","title":{"rendered":"Mammal portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog often seems to neglect local mammals in favour of birds. It is merely that birds are interesting, plentiful, seasonally\u00a0variable\u00a0and easily seen. Mammals are not seen with the same frequency. Yet, here are four species seen yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Now and then I watch a couple of White-tailed Deer grazing alongside my driveway. This doe was chary, but unmoved by my\u00a0presence. Could such behaviour and observations have led to the term, doe eyes?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4942\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/whitetaileddeer120422s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Common in areas somewhat protected from predators such a coyotes, is the Columbian Ground Squirrel.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4941\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/columbiangroundsquirrel120422s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Less common in the West Kootenay, but always fun to see is the moose. It looks as if this one is the mother,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4938\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/moose120422as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and this one is last year&#8217;s calf.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4937\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/moose120422bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then there were the Bighorn Sheep. I believe each of these two pictures show females.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4939\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bighornsheepF120422bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4940\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bighornsheepF120422as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog often seems to neglect local mammals in favour of birds. It is merely that birds are interesting, plentiful, seasonally\u00a0variable\u00a0and easily seen. Mammals are not seen with the same frequency. Yet, here are four species seen yesterday. Now and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4936\">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-4936","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\/4936","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=4936"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4950,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions\/4950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}