{"id":2029,"date":"2012-03-23T20:50:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T03:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2012-03-23T20:50:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T03:50:37","slug":"american-bittern-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2029","title":{"rendered":"American Bittern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being such a beautiful day, I made sure to take time and get out to enjoy it. Today&#8217;s stroll was at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> which was fairly busy with it being spring break for the kids. There had been a report of a Green Heron in the southwest pond the other day, so I started my walk along the outside dyke trail. While there was no sign of it today,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2030\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2030\" title=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI066.jpg\" alt=\"American Bittern\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI066.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI066-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI066-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; at the opposite end of the trail in the northwest pond was this American Bittern.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2031\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2031\" title=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI070.jpg\" alt=\"American Bittern\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI070.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI070-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI070-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI070-452x300.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-2031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This heron usually prefers to keep out of site and tucked away amongst the reeds,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2032\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2032\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2032\" title=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI071.jpg\" alt=\"American Bittern\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI071.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI071-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI071-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI071-452x300.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-2032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; but will occasionally surprise you and take the odd stroll out in the open.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2033\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2033\" title=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI072.jpg\" alt=\"American Bittern\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI072.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI072-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI072-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AMBI072-452x300.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-2033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I spent most of the afternoon with this bird pointing it out to other visitors while taking a photo here and there of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being such a beautiful day, I made sure to take time and get out to enjoy it. Today&#8217;s stroll was at Reifel which was fairly busy with it being spring break for the kids. There had been a report of a Green Heron in the southwest pond the other day, so I started my walk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Bittern&#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":[124],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-american-bittern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","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=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}