{"id":1560,"date":"2011-11-19T19:07:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T02:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2011-12-05T22:41:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T06:41:49","slug":"shrike-swans-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1560","title":{"rendered":"Shrike, Swans & Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had time to get out for a couple of hours later this afternoon. Wanting to try for some more shots of a Shrike, I headed back to Brunswick Point where I had photographed one a couple of days ago.<\/p>\n

On arriving there was a Great Horned Owl tucked away in a conifer at the beginning of the trail. Its location was questionable for photos and I did not try to get any closer. Just around the corner from it I had a distant view of a Rough-legged Hawk. This is another winter visitor seen in this area every year. Then on speaking with a couple of other birders, they informed me there were a couple of Snowy Owls present as well. Unfortunately they were way out at the edge of the marsh at the waterline. I was not dressed to attempt a trek out there, so I carried on to look for the Northern Shrike.<\/p>\n

On reaching the area I had previously seen it,<\/p>\n

\"Northern
Northern Shrike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… it was not long before it showed up. While I did manage to get a little closer today by anticipating which trees to set up on,<\/p>\n

\"Northern
Northern Shrike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… it did not hang around after these shots.<\/p>\n

In addition to all the Snow Geese along the shoreline,<\/p>\n

\"Trumpeter
Trumpeter Swan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… there were some small groups of Trumpeter Swans coming and going.<\/p>\n

\"Trumpeter
Trumpeter Swan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They were still arriving on my way out with the sun going down.<\/p>\n

In addition to the usual Northern Harriers cruising the marsh,<\/p>\n

\"Short-eared
Short-eared Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… there were also several Short-eared Owls up and about this afternoon. Perhaps a sign it may be time to shift into raptor and owl mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had time to get out for a couple of hours later this afternoon. Wanting to try for some more shots of a Shrike, I headed back to Brunswick Point where I had photographed one a couple of days ago. On arriving there was a Great Horned Owl tucked away in a conifer at the … Continue reading “Shrike, Swans & Owl”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[6,8,7],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-brunswick-point","tag-northern-shrike","tag-short-eared-owl","tag-trumpeter-swan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}