{"id":2138,"date":"2012-04-22T18:30:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T01:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2012-04-22T18:30:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T01:30:43","slug":"nests-of-a-different-sort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2138","title":{"rendered":"Nests Of A Different Sort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headed out to <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> this afternoon to help out on the trails. It was not overly busy for a relatively nice Sunday. The big news since my last visit,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2139\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2139\" title=\"Sandhill Crane\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SACR_s3001.jpg\" alt=\"Sandhill Crane\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SACR_s3001.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SACR_s3001-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SACR_s3001-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SACR_s3001-452x300.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-2139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandhill Crane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; the Sandhill Cranes are on the nest and incubating eggs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2140\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2140\" title=\"Sandhill Crane\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SACR_s3002.jpg\" alt=\"Sandhill Crane\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SACR_s3002.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SACR_s3002-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SACR_s3002-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SACR_s3002-452x300.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-2140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandhill Crane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first egg was laid on Friday, the second showed up today. Now the countdown begins and should be around 30 days before it&#8217;s time to start watching for chicks.<\/p>\n<p>While at Reifel I got a nice tip from a fellow volunteer in regards to a nest of a different sort. A hummingbird nest in the South Arm Marshes. As it was still fairly quiet, I left a little early to check it out on my way home.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2141\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2141\" title=\"Rufous Hummingbird\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RUHU051.jpg\" alt=\"Rufous Hummingbird\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RUHU051.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RUHU051-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RUHU051-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rufous Hummingbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It did not take me long to find it and determine it was a Rufous Hummingbird nest.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2142\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2142\" title=\"Rufous Hummingbird\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RUHU052.jpg\" alt=\"Rufous Hummingbird\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RUHU052.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RUHU052-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RUHU052-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rufous Hummingbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bonus of the day was that the young have hatched and I managed to get her feeding them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headed out to Reifel this afternoon to help out on the trails. It was not overly busy for a relatively nice Sunday. The big news since my last visit, &#8230; the Sandhill Cranes are on the nest and incubating eggs. The first egg was laid on Friday, the second showed up today. Now the countdown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2138\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nests Of A Different Sort&#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":[9,11,111],"tags":[98,37],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","category-south-arm-marshes","tag-rufous-hummingbird","tag-sandhill-crane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","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=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}