{"id":6664,"date":"2012-11-09T13:41:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T21:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2012-11-10T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T16:47:25","slug":"otter-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6664","title":{"rendered":"Otter dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why do so many interesting things take place off in the distance prior to sunrise&#8212;a time when observing and photographing are difficult?<\/p>\n<p>This morning&#8217;s early light brought five cavorting otters to a local dock. This is probably the same group that offered me the <a title=\"Ogopogo\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4559\">ogopogo<\/a> moment last March, now apparently reduced by one. Other than this group, I have only seen otters <a title=\"Otter ablutions\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4245\">one at a time<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p>Five otters on a dock: three romping (left), one staring at the Lake (centre); one playing with a rope (right).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6666\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/otters121109as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A slightly closer view of four of the otters.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6665\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/otters121109bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Why do so many interesting things take place off in the distance prior to sunrise&#8212;a time when observing and photographing are difficult? This morning&#8217;s early light brought five cavorting otters to a local dock. This is probably the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6664\">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-6664","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\/6664","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=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6675,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions\/6675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}