{"id":2457,"date":"2012-07-24T23:37:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T06:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2012-07-25T00:39:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T07:39:06","slug":"juveniles-killdeer-cedar-waxwing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2457","title":{"rendered":"Killdeer & Cedar Waxwing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Started off this afternoon at Reifel<\/a>. While still fairly quiet there was a Red-necked Phalarope in with the Yellowlegs and Dowitchers today. It just never came close enough for a decent photo. There was also a handful of Least Sandpipers present as well. At the other end of the outer ponds,<\/p>\n

\"Killdeer
Killdeer & Juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… the Killdeer and its juvenile (foreground) were a little closer to the dyke.<\/p>\n

\"Killdeer
Killdeer & Juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The juvenile Killdeer has grown quite a bit since I saw it last. From here I headed off to the North 40 where I had not been in some time. Things were not looking any busier there until something caught my eye amongst the branches of a tree.<\/p>\n

\"Cedar
Cedar Waxwing Juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a juvenile Cedar Waxwing.<\/p>\n

\"Cedar
Cedar Waxwing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And not far off higher up in an adjacent tree was one of the adults. Being the wonderful late afternoon that it was I felt this was worth spending a little time with.<\/p>\n

\"Cedar
Cedar Waxwing Juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The juvenile Cedar Waxwing was mobile, but not flying yet. I positioned myself far enough away as not to be a concern for the adults, but still close enough for photos. Then it was a matter of keeping still, waiting and hoping to catch some feeding behaviour.<\/p>\n

\"Cedar
Cedar Waxwing Feeding Juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then one of the adults came in to feed the juvenile.<\/p>\n

\"Cedar
Cedar Waxwing Feeding Juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This time around it was regurgitating whole berries. Unfortunately the juvenile had moved and was not as visible as I would have liked.<\/p>\n

\"Cedar
Cedar Waxwing Feeding Juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next feeding appeared to be some nice gooey insects.<\/p>\n

\"Cedar
Cedar Waxwing Feeding Juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cedar
Cedar Waxwing Feeding Juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After which the juvenile did come out a little more into the open,<\/p>\n

\"Cedar
Cedar Waxwing Juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… and then started to move around again.<\/p>\n

\"Cedar
Cedar Waxwing Juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once it had settled in this tree I decided it was time to move on. This was the first time I have managed to capture this behaviour with the Waxwings and enjoyed every minute of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Started off this afternoon at Reifel. While still fairly quiet there was a Red-necked Phalarope in with the Yellowlegs and Dowitchers today. It just never came close enough for a decent photo. There was also a handful of Least Sandpipers present as well. At the other end of the outer ponds, … the Killdeer and … Continue reading “Killdeer & Cedar Waxwing”<\/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":[9,11,160],"tags":[88,62],"class_list":["post-2457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","category-north-40","tag-cedar-waxwing","tag-killdeer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457","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=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}