{"id":1740,"date":"2011-12-09T20:47:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T04:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2011-12-09T20:47:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T04:47:15","slug":"northern-harrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1740","title":{"rendered":"Northern Harrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well things did not go quite as planned today. The beautiful day it was, I had hoped to get out earlier. Unfortunately I only managed a brief walk out in Boundary Bay just before the sun went down.<\/p>\n<p>There were the usual Northern Harriers up and hunting. Use to seeing them roosting on logs or down in the marsh when they stop to rest,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1741\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1741\" title=\"Northern Harrier\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/NOHA101.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Harrier\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/NOHA101.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/NOHA101-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/NOHA101-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/NOHA101-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Harrier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; this adult male Harrier provided a change of pace by choosing this tree.<\/p>\n<p>There were some Short-eared Owls cruising the area along with several Snow Owls roosting. There were still lots of photographers going after the owls so I did not bother to head out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1742\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1742\" title=\"Snowy Owl &amp; Northern Harrier\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SNOW023.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy Owl &amp; Northern Harrier\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SNOW023.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SNOW023-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SNOW023-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SNOW023-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowy Owl &amp; Northern Harrier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On my way back I did manage this shot of a Northern Harrier making a pass at a Snowy Owl roosting on an old stump. The Snowy ended up there after being flushed off another log by a photographer. They just can&#8217;t seem to get a break some days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well things did not go quite as planned today. The beautiful day it was, I had hoped to get out earlier. Unfortunately I only managed a brief walk out in Boundary Bay just before the sun went down. There were the usual Northern Harriers up and hunting. Use to seeing them roosting on logs or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1740\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Northern Harrier&#8221;<\/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":[9,10],"tags":[121,5],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-northern-harrier","tag-snowy-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","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=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}