{"id":1841,"date":"2012-01-08T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T03:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2012-01-08T19:22:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T03:22:24","slug":"night-heron-hairy-woodpecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1841","title":{"rendered":"Night-Heron & Hairy Woodpecker"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was still a fairly grey day when I headed out to Reifel<\/a> to help out on the trails this afternoon. The number of visitors was subdued as well. On starting off I came across one regular winter visitor that was awake and somewhat in the open.<\/p>\n

\"Black-crowned
Black-crowned Night-Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Black-crowned Night-Heron is a favourite of many visitors this time of the year.<\/p>\n

A highlight of the morning walk was a pair of Canvasback on the inner display ponds. Unfortunately they were too far off for any decent pictures. Making up for that, however,<\/p>\n

\"Hairy
Hairy Woodpecker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… was this female Hairy Woodpecker along the centre dyke trail. Initially it was higher up in the trees,<\/p>\n

\"Hairy
Hairy Woodpecker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… but with a little patience it came to this old snag lower down. This can help with backgrounds when shooting on a grey day like today.<\/p>\n

\"Hairy
Hairy Woodpecker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Hairy Woodpecker is not seen as often as some of the other woodpeckers in the sanctuary.<\/p>\n

\"Hairy
Hairy Woodpecker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So it was nice to spend a little time with this cooperative bird and pointing it out to visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was still a fairly grey day when I headed out to Reifel to help out on the trails this afternoon. The number of visitors was subdued as well. On starting off I came across one regular winter visitor that was awake and somewhat in the open. The Black-crowned Night-Heron is a favourite of many … Continue reading “Night-Heron & Hairy Woodpecker”<\/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":[139,43],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-black-crowned-night-heron","tag-hairy-woodpecker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","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=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1848,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}