{"id":1936,"date":"2012-02-10T22:52:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T06:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2012-02-11T00:21:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T08:21:32","slug":"squirrel-sharp-shinned-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1936","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel & Sharp-shinned Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

A chance arose to get out for a walk this afternoon. As there were still some showers off and on, I headed to Reifel<\/a> where the trails would afford some cover if required. After arriving something entertaining caught my eye before I even left the parking lot.<\/p>\n

\"Squirrel\"
Squirrel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While my focus is usually birds,<\/p>\n

\"Squirrel\"
Squirrel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… this squirrel was fun to watch as it dangled amongst the branches eating berries.<\/p>\n

As for birds, I was not finding much along the east or north dyke trails. About half way along the centre dyke while scanning back over my shoulder I spotted a Sharp-shinned Hawk off in the trees I had just walked by. It did not take off after I stopped, so I slowly worked my way back to where I would have a clear shot through the branches. It remained on its perch once I stopped again.<\/p>\n

\"Sharp-shinned
Sharp-shinned Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As you can see from this shot it was watching me,<\/p>\n

\"Sharp-shinned
Sharp-shinned Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… but soon went back to scanning the tree line. A pleasant surprise to have it stay put, but at this point it was just me and the bird.<\/p>\n

\"Sharp-shinned
Sharp-shinned Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After I managed a few shots, a young family was approaching along the trail. I motioned for them to be quiet and pointed out the hawk to them. They caught a brief glimpse of it in the tree, but this was too many people and it flew off to the north. None the less, they were as happy as I was to have seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A chance arose to get out for a walk this afternoon. As there were still some showers off and on, I headed to Reifel where the trails would afford some cover if required. After arriving something entertaining caught my eye before I even left the parking lot. While my focus is usually birds, … this … Continue reading “Squirrel & Sharp-shinned Hawk”<\/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":[9,11,28],"tags":[147,148],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","category-other-photos","tag-sharp-shinned-hawk","tag-squirrel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","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=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}