{"id":2496,"date":"2007-10-10T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2007-10-10T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T00:16:00","slug":"elk-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/10\/10\/elk-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Elk Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike,<\/p>\n<p>Beth and I just can&#8217;t stay away from those elk!  Yesterday we took another trip up to Rocky Mtn Nat&#8217;l Park, this time in the late afternoon at prime time.  We saw Big Daddy bucks herding their does, Big Daddy chasing young bucks away from their herds, and two competing Big Daddies sparring.  Plus lots and lots of bugling, grunting and keening (sorry, still no sound).  There were so many elk near and on the road we had to stop and wait, like in Ireland when the sheep cross the road.  It was quite a show!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.schmahl.org\/ElkAction\" title=\"Elk Action\" target=\"_blank\">ElkAction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;rakkity<\/p>\n<p>***********<\/p>\n<p>Guffaws From the Western Peanut Gallery<\/p>\n<p>Michael,<\/p>\n<p>My cousin Patrick, who was born, raised, educated, and river rafted (his day job) throughout the mountain west, says that, &#8220;Lest you be guffawed upon as an upstart, transplanted Easterner, you should use the nomenclature, bulls, cows, and calves for elk (not bucks, does, and fawns).&#8221;  So, fearing unrestrained guffaws from my western cousins, I suggest you use this revised album:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.schmahl.org\/Rocky%20Mountain%20Elk%20in%20Action\" title=\"Elk Action\" target=\"_blank\">Revised Elk Action<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.schmahl.org\/Rocky%20Mountain%20Elk%20in%20Action\" title=\"Elk Action\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><br \/>\n&#8211;rakkity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike, Beth and I just can&#8217;t stay away from those elk! Yesterday we took another trip up to Rocky Mtn Nat&#8217;l Park, this time in the late afternoon at prime time. We saw Big Daddy bucks herding their does, Big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/10\/10\/elk-action\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}