{"id":1783,"date":"2011-12-20T17:27:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T01:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2011-12-20T17:27:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T01:27:06","slug":"mallard-great-blue-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1783","title":{"rendered":"Mallard &#038; Great Blue Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After some chores around home it did clear up this afternoon, so brief stroll around <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> was in order. It was fairly quiet both people and birding wise. While watching waterfowl on some of the inner ponds,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1784\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1784\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1784\" title=\"Mallard\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MALL037.jpg\" alt=\"Mallard\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MALL037.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MALL037-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MALL037-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MALL037-452x300.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-1784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; I managed to capture this Mallard taking off. Then along one of the inner trails,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1786\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1786\" title=\"Great Blue Heron\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GBHE106.jpg\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GBHE106.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GBHE106-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GBHE106-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Blue Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; this Great Blue Heron was resting on the waters edge in some nice light. As both Mallards and Great Blue Herons are abundant in this area,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1787\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1787\" title=\"Great Blue Heron\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GBHE107.jpg\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GBHE107.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GBHE107-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GBHE107-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Blue Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; it was not surprising that a few Mallards tried to sneak into the shot as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some chores around home it did clear up this afternoon, so brief stroll around Reifel was in order. It was fairly quiet both people and birding wise. While watching waterfowl on some of the inner ponds, &#8230; I managed to capture this Mallard taking off. Then along one of the inner trails, &#8230; this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1783\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mallard &#038; Great Blue Heron&#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":[9,11],"tags":[66,22],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-mallard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","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=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}