{"id":5020,"date":"2012-04-30T07:39:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2012-04-30T07:41:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T14:41:48","slug":"beaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5020","title":{"rendered":"Beaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is evidence of beavers around the lakeshore and its adjacent\u00a0ponds and streams:\u00a0gnawed\u00a0trees, tracks, lodges and dams. Yet, I rarely see the animal itself. The problem may well be that beavers are most active\u00a0from dusk to dawn, a time that doesn&#8217;t fit well with my observing schedule. Yet, now and then we overlap.<\/p>\n<p>When spotted Saturday evening, there were two beavers sitting on a boulder. Alas, one was just leaving.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5022\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/beaver120428bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The remaining beaver was gnawing on (what appeared to be) an alder branch.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5021\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/beaver120428cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At one point, the beaver left and returned with another branch. The branch is being dragged along underwater; it is the lighter region extending from below the left eye diagonally across to the beaver&#8217;s right side.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5027\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/beaver120428ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back at the boulder, the beaver set about gnawing on the new branch.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5023\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/beaver120428as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, hello.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5026\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/beaver120428es.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There is evidence of beavers around the lakeshore and its adjacent\u00a0ponds and streams:\u00a0gnawed\u00a0trees, tracks, lodges and dams. Yet, I rarely see the animal itself. The problem may well be that beavers are most active\u00a0from dusk to dawn, a time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5020\">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-5020","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\/5020","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=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5032,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions\/5032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}