{"id":1865,"date":"2012-01-14T22:29:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T06:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2012-01-14T22:29:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T06:29:33","slug":"merganser-eagle-owl-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1865","title":{"rendered":"Merganser, Eagle, Owl & Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another winter migrant that has been spotted recently is the Common Redpoll. Good numbers were seen the other day at Reifel<\/a>, so that is where I headed this afternoon. I started off down the east dyke trail, but no sign of them along there. On a diversion to the blind overlooking Ewan Slough and the Alaksen National Wildlife area,<\/p>\n

\"Hooded
Hooded Merganser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… this Hooded Merganser was busy trying to position its catch to swallow it. On the far side of the slough,<\/p>\n

\"Bald
Bald Eagle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… this Bald Eagle was basking in the sun on a log in the water. There were also four Pied-billed Grebe around as well, just not close enough for decent photos.<\/p>\n

While continuing my search for the Redpoll along the centre dyke trail,<\/p>\n

\"Barred
Barred Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… I came across this Barred Owl roosting in a Birch tree. A favourite spot for it of late, just the first time I have managed to see and photograph it here. I ended up spending a fair bit of time here with my camera set up and showing the owl to other visitors.<\/p>\n

It was getting late now and I resigned myself to the fact the Redpoll would have to wait for another day. As a consolation though,<\/p>\n

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

… one of the Black-crowned Night-Heron was roosting in the open with the last of the light on my way back to the parking lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another winter migrant that has been spotted recently is the Common Redpoll. Good numbers were seen the other day at Reifel, so that is where I headed this afternoon. I started off down the east dyke trail, but no sign of them along there. On a diversion to the blind overlooking Ewan Slough and the … Continue reading “Merganser, Eagle, Owl & Heron”<\/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":[76,9,11],"tags":[130,141,139,73],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaksen-national-wildlife-area","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-bald-eagle","tag-barred-owl","tag-black-crowned-night-heron","tag-hooded-merganser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","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=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}