{"id":2392,"date":"2012-07-06T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T06:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2012-07-07T00:06:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T07:06:29","slug":"bald-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2392","title":{"rendered":"Bald Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being such a lovely day I had to get out for a walk at some point. Later in the afternoon I headed out to <a title=\"George C. Reifel  Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a>, but was not expecting to find much. It was fairly quiet on the birding front. A Black-crowned Night-Heron has already returned as one did this time last year. There were some Yellowlegs, Dowitchers and Western Sandpipers in the outer ponds. Also way off in the distance I spotted a juvenile Killdeer along with an adult. With no pictures to speak of when leaving it was time to perk myself up a little.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2394\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2394\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2394\" title=\"Emma's Ice Cream, Emma-Lea Farms\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Emmas001.jpg\" alt=\"Emma's Ice Cream, Emma-Lea Farms\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Emmas001.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Emmas001-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Emmas001-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Emmas001-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma&#8217;s Ice Cream, Emma-Lea Farms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What better way than stopping at <a title=\"Emma-Lea Farms\" href=\"http:\/\/emmaleafarms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emma-Lea Farms<\/a> and Emma&#8217;s Ice Cream for some farm fresh strawberries and ice cream. Feeling somewhat revived the next stop was the Bald Eagle nest by the Westham Island bridge.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2395\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2395\" title=\"Bald Eagle\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/BAEA132.jpg\" alt=\"Bald Eagle\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/BAEA132.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/BAEA132-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/BAEA132-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bald Eagle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was siesta time for one of the adults,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2396\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2396\" title=\"Bald Eagle\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/BAEA134.jpg\" alt=\"Bald Eagle\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/BAEA134.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/BAEA134-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/BAEA134-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bald Eagle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>and even one of the juveniles was relaxed taking in the sun. Great to finally have some summer weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being such a lovely day I had to get out for a walk at some point. Later in the afternoon I headed out to Reifel, but was not expecting to find much. It was fairly quiet on the birding front. A Black-crowned Night-Heron has already returned as one did this time last year. There were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2392\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bald Eagle&#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],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","tag-bald-eagle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","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=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}