{"id":7524,"date":"2019-03-20T18:47:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T01:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7524"},"modified":"2019-03-21T08:32:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:32:24","slug":"march-20-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7524","title":{"rendered":"March 20 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 March<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>20 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I have ever done three postings in a day before \u2013 but this one can\u2019t wait.\u00a0 It is hill-topping time on Mount Tolmie again.\u00a0 At 4:30 this afternoon, three apparently pristine-fresh <strong>California Tortoiseshells <\/strong>were besporting themselves on the reservoir atop Mount Tolmie.\u00a0 They were putting on a tremendous display, chasing each other around, and showing off their beautiful wings.\u00a0 They were attracting the attention of other people o n the reservoir \u2013 it has to be pretty spectacular for that to happen.\u00a0 When I got there at 4:40, Kirsten Mills was already there and she had already photographed one of them, seen below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 Butterfliers should note that nymphalid and other butterflies typically hill-top in the <em>late afternoon and early evening<\/em>.\u00a0 As well as Mount Tolmie, it would be worth checking Mount Douglas, Christmas Hill and Highrock Hill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pastedImage-3.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">California Tortoiseshell <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em> (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 March\u00a0 20 evening \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I have ever done three postings in a day before \u2013 but this one can\u2019t wait.\u00a0 It is hill-topping time on Mount Tolmie again.\u00a0 At 4:30 this afternoon, three apparently pristine-fresh California Tortoiseshells were besporting themselves on the reservoir atop Mount Tolmie.\u00a0 They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7526,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions\/7526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}