{"id":7204,"date":"2013-02-20T07:15:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T15:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7204"},"modified":"2013-02-20T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T01:24:10","slug":"daytime-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7204","title":{"rendered":"Daytime deer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last evening I had to brake abruptly to avoid hitting four White-tailed Deer on a road. That isn&#8217;t unexpected in the evening, for after all, these deer are crepuscular (see <a title=\"Road hazard\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7039\">road\u00a0hazard<\/a>). So, it was a bit unexpected last week to see them midday on two occasions. I don&#8217;t know why they were out and about at this unusual time.<\/p>\n<p>The first sighting was of a doe and its fawn crossing a field. Only the fawn posed nicely for me.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7205\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/whitetaileddeerf130212s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A couple of days later, a doe and two fawns were seen travelling along the beach. Here are two of the three.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7206\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/whitetaileddeer130215s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Last evening I had to brake abruptly to avoid hitting four White-tailed Deer on a road. That isn&#8217;t unexpected in the evening, for after all, these deer are crepuscular (see road\u00a0hazard). So, it was a bit unexpected last week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7204\">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-7204","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\/7204","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=7204"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7212,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204\/revisions\/7212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}