{"id":2217,"date":"2012-05-18T23:39:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T06:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2012-05-19T00:40:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T07:40:17","slug":"black-headed-grosbeak-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2217","title":{"rendered":"Black-headed Grosbeak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having seen Black-headed Grosbeak at a couple of different locations recently, and wanting to try for better photos, I headed to <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> as the odds would be better there. There has been a few of them around usually frequenting the east dyke trail.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2218\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2218\" title=\"Black-headed Grosbeak\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BHGR031.jpg\" alt=\"Black-headed Grosbeak\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BHGR031.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BHGR031-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BHGR031-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BHGR031-452x300.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-2218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-headed Grosbeak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The adult males are quite distinct with their orange, black and white colouring.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2219\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2219\" title=\"Black-headed Grosbeak\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BHGR032.jpg\" alt=\"Black-headed Grosbeak\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BHGR032.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BHGR032-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BHGR032-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BHGR032-452x300.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-2219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-headed Grosbeak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The females are not as flashy and both will share in nesting duties and feeding young.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2220\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2220\" title=\"Black-headed Grosbeak\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BHGR033.jpg\" alt=\"Black-headed Grosbeak\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BHGR033.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BHGR033-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BHGR033-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BHGR033-452x300.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-2220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-headed Grosbeak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After getting them foraging on the ground, this male posed nicely for me in a tree.<\/p>\n<p>While at the sanctuary this afternoon I also checked on the Sandhill Cranes. It is almost time to start a nest watch with the eggs due to hatch in the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having seen Black-headed Grosbeak at a couple of different locations recently, and wanting to try for better photos, I headed to Reifel as the odds would be better there. There has been a few of them around usually frequenting the east dyke trail. The adult males are quite distinct with their orange, black and white &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2217\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black-headed Grosbeak&#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":[95],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-black-headed-grosbeak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","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=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}