{"id":2279,"date":"2012-05-27T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T02:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2012-05-27T19:01:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T02:01:01","slug":"osprey-phalarope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2279","title":{"rendered":"Osprey & Phalarope"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been about three weeks since I last checked on the Osprey, so I headed out there this morning. My last couple of visits I observed mating behaviour and today I wanted to see if they were on eggs yet.<\/p>\n

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

On arriving the female was on the nest and appeared to be incubating eggs. She always starts calling when the male is near or approaching. This is handy because,<\/p>\n

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

… it gives you a heads up to prepare for shots like this of him arriving with a fish for her.<\/p>\n

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

She then takes the fish and flies off to a nearby tree to eat it and he will sit on the eggs. Now the countdown to when the chicks will hatch has begun. After this I headed out to Reifel<\/a>. In part to help out on the trails and there was a Ruff sighted their yesterday afternoon. The Ruff being a fairly rare shorebird to see in these parts. On making my out to the outer ponds there was no sign of the Ruff, but there were a couple of other interesting shorebirds mixed in with the Dowitchers. A Stilt Sandpiper too far off for photos,<\/p>\n

\"Wilson's
Wilson's Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… and a Wilson’s Phalarope which did come in a little closer to the trail.<\/p>\n

\"Wilson's
Wilson's Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With Phalaropes it is the female that has the colourful plumage and dominant behaviour. This one being a female Wilson’s Phalarope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been about three weeks since I last checked on the Osprey, so I headed out there this morning. My last couple of visits I observed mating behaviour and today I wanted to see if they were on eggs yet. On arriving the female was on the nest and appeared to be incubating eggs. … Continue reading “Osprey & Phalarope”<\/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":[80,51],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-osprey","tag-wilsons-phalarope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","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=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}