{"id":550,"date":"2010-11-28T11:33:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T19:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=550"},"modified":"2010-12-26T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T22:27:31","slug":"bear-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Bear tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the north end of the Lake, a friend put his bird feeder out again yesterday, thinking that the bears have now retreated for the winter. Yet, among the visitors to my snow\u2013covered\u00a0yard overnight was a bear (tracks below). So, I checked some earlier images and I have seen bear tracks in the snow in my yard into the second week in December. Nevertheless, last night&#8217;s bear did not discover <em>my<\/em> bird feeder.<\/p>\n<p>Bears are with us yet.<\/p>\n<p>The Kootenay-Lake\u00a0Website offers a discussion and more pictures of local\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/mammals\/carnivores\/bbears\/index.html\">black bears<\/a> and of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/mammals\/tracks\/index.html\">tracks<\/a> in the snow.<\/p>\n<p>Black bear tracks in the snow under a tree where the snow isn&#8217;t deep.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-551\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/beartracks101128a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From there the bear tracks continue toward the Lake.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-552\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/beartracks101128b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the north end of the Lake, a friend put his bird feeder out again yesterday, thinking that the bears have now retreated for the winter. Yet, among the visitors to my snow\u2013covered\u00a0yard overnight was a bear (tracks below). So, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=550\">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-550","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\/550","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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}