{"id":8351,"date":"2013-07-15T06:53:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T13:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8351"},"modified":"2013-07-15T06:53:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T13:53:37","slug":"mountain-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8351","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Goats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The closest I have been to mountain goats is a hundred or so metres, but that distance was measured vertically. So, I marvel at Doug Thorburn&#8217;s encounter on Saturday. He wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was treated to a display of extrovert Mt goats today. \u2026\u00a0I had heard that the goats in this area were becoming habituated to the hikers moving through, but was not prepared for the enthusiasm of their antics!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a handful of Doug&#8217;s pictures.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8357\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mountaingoat130713bsDT.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8353\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mountaingoat130713fsDT.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8354\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mountaingoat130713esDT.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8355\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mountaingoat130713dsDT.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8356\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mountaingoat130713csDT.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8358\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mountaingoat130713asDT.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8352\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mountaingoat130713gsDT.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Doug Thorburn&#8217;s pictures are used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The closest I have been to mountain goats is a hundred or so metres, but that distance was measured vertically. So, I marvel at Doug Thorburn&#8217;s encounter on Saturday. He wrote: I was treated to a display of extrovert &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8351\">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-8351","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\/8351","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=8351"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8367,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions\/8367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}