{"id":8162,"date":"2013-06-23T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T19:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8162"},"modified":"2013-06-23T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T19:10:24","slug":"deer-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8162","title":{"rendered":"Deer insights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My friend, Doug Thorburn, sent me pictures he took of two white-tailed bucks grazing in a meadow near the lakeshore. From those pictures, I learned two things:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 Antlers of different bucks grow at different rates;<br \/>\n\u2022 Deer like to eat daisies.<\/p>\n<p>This buck&#8217;s antlers are barely started.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8164\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/whitetaileddeer130621asDT.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This buck&#8217;s antlers are well underway. Both antlers are still in\u00a0velvet.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8163\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/whitetaileddeer130621bsDT.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Doug Thorburn&#8217;s pictures are used with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My friend, Doug Thorburn, sent me pictures he took of two white-tailed bucks grazing in a meadow near the lakeshore. From those pictures, I learned two things: \u2022 Antlers of different bucks grow at different rates; \u2022 Deer like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8162\">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-8162","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\/8162","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=8162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8168,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8162\/revisions\/8168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}