{"id":2224,"date":"2012-05-19T21:08:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T04:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2012-05-19T21:08:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T04:08:55","slug":"sparrow-bunting-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2224","title":{"rendered":"Sparrow, Bunting & Swallow"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Reifel provided more opportunities for Grosbeaks the other day, the North 40 is probably the only spot in this area (Delta) you will find another bird I have been waiting for. When I arrived this afternoon and was getting my gear ready I finally heard a Lazuli Bunting singing. The only problem being I could not find it before it went quiet.<\/p>\n

While looking for the bunting, a Savannah Sparrow started singing nicely atop a small tree.<\/p>\n

\"Savannah
Savannah Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It allowed me to get a couple of shots from different angles.<\/p>\n

\"Savannah
Savannah Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After photographing the sparrow I could hear the Lazuli Bunting singing again. After moving to that area of the park I was able to hear more than one singing and finally caught a glimpse of a male. They were moving around,<\/p>\n

\"Lazuli
Lazuli Bunting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… but I finally got a couple photos of one of them, this being a male.<\/p>\n

\"Lazuli
Lazuli Bunting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is the same tree they have frequented in past years. I could not determine how many were around, or if there were any females amongst them.<\/p>\n

One other interesting find from a previous visit that I followed up on today,<\/p>\n

\"Tree
Tree Swallow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… was this Tree Swallow nest.<\/p>\n

\"Tree
Tree Swallow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looks like it is an active nest and worthy of another visit when there are some young mouths to be fed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Reifel provided more opportunities for Grosbeaks the other day, the North 40 is probably the only spot in this area (Delta) you will find another bird I have been waiting for. When I arrived this afternoon and was getting my gear ready I finally heard a Lazuli Bunting singing. The only problem being I … Continue reading “Sparrow, Bunting & Swallow”<\/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":[9,160],"tags":[93,91,99],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-north-40","tag-lazuli-bunting","tag-savannah-sparrow","tag-tree-swallow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","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=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}