{"id":1900,"date":"2012-01-28T20:01:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T04:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2012-01-29T00:37:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T08:37:05","slug":"water-birds-owls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1900","title":{"rendered":"Water Birds & Owls"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was still pretty grey when I headed out this afternoon, but at least it was not raining. My destination today was Brunswick Point. After arriving, and before heading out to the point, a quick check of Canoe Pass was in order as a couple of things caught my eye. Canoe Pass is that portion of the South Arm of the Fraser River that goes into Ladner Harbour. The first thing that I noticed,<\/p>\n

\"Long-tailed
Long-tailed Duck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… was this Long-tailed Duck. There were some Western Grebe out there as well, but they were even further off than the Long-tailed.<\/p>\n

\"Red-breasted
Red-breasted Merganser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next up were some Red-breasted Merganser.<\/p>\n

\"Red-breasted
Red-breasted Merganser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It has been a few years since I last photographed one of these.<\/p>\n

\"Barrow's
Barrow's Goldeneye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bonus bird of the afternoon was this Barrow’s Goldeneye.<\/p>\n

\"Barrow's
Barrow's Goldeneye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Barrow’s Goldeneye is a new addition to my life photo list. So, some interesting waterfowl from the birding perspective, unfortunate the weather was not better from the photography side of things.<\/p>\n

\"Double-crested
Double-crested Cormorant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of course the the usual Double-crested Cormorant were on the pilings of the old Brunswick Cannery<\/a> (photo<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Once on the dyke trail around Brunswick Point things were fairly quiet. The usual Northern Harriers and one Short-eared Owl were active over the marsh. About half way along there was a change from what has been the norm.<\/p>\n

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

There were four Snowy Owls roosting in closer to the dyke.<\/p>\n

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

My last few visits to Brunswick Point they have always been some distance out.<\/p>\n

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

While not as close as the ones at Boundary Bay have been of late,<\/p>\n

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

… it was nice to see the ones here in closer providing better views. The numbers are not as great here either, I counted seven today. There is usually twenty plus in the bay area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was still pretty grey when I headed out this afternoon, but at least it was not raining. My destination today was Brunswick Point. After arriving, and before heading out to the point, a quick check of Canoe Pass was in order as a couple of things caught my eye. Canoe Pass is that portion … Continue reading “Water Birds & Owls”<\/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":[9,12,142],"tags":[144,145,26,143,5],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-brunswick-point","category-canoe-pass","tag-barrows-goldeneye","tag-double-crested-cormorant","tag-long-tailed-duck","tag-red-breasted-merganser","tag-snowy-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","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=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}