{"id":8878,"date":"2013-09-29T07:43:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8878"},"modified":"2013-09-29T11:30:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T18:30:42","slug":"mountain-goats-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8878","title":{"rendered":"Mountain goats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had headed for the Lardeau River in the hope of seeing Grizzly Bears feasting on the spawning Kokanee (Sockeye Salmon). Alas, the jaunt produced no grizzlies. Yet, Mountain Goats high on a cliff overlooking Kootenay Lake provided satisfactory compensation.<\/p>\n<p>The first Mountain Goat was seen lounging on a ledge. It remained for hours regally surveying the Lake below.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8880\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mountaingoat130927cs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More interesting was another goat roaming the ledges about 300 metres along the cliff.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8879\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mountaingoat130927ds.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It wandered around feeding on sparse grass.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8881\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mountaingoat130927bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And provided me with the best views I have had of a Mountain Goat.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8887\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mountaingoat130927as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I had headed for the Lardeau River in the hope of seeing Grizzly Bears feasting on the spawning Kokanee (Sockeye Salmon). Alas, the jaunt produced no grizzlies. Yet, Mountain Goats high on a cliff overlooking Kootenay Lake provided satisfactory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8878\">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-8878","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\/8878","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=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8899,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions\/8899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}