{"id":2538,"date":"2012-08-19T21:52:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T04:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2012-08-19T21:52:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T04:52:55","slug":"sora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2538","title":{"rendered":"Sora"},"content":{"rendered":"

After not being able to do it last weekend, I made my way out to volunteer on the trails at Reifel<\/a> this afternoon. There were a few more people than in recent weeks and some interesting birds to boot. Just inside the entrance a Sora had been showing well around the warming hut area. As luck would have it, it was not present when I went to check.<\/p>\n

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

The Barn Swallow nest on the side of the warming hut was entertaining several folks.<\/p>\n

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

These chicks will not be in the nest much longer. From here I carried on to the outer ponds. Some of the usual shore birds present were Yellowlegs, Dowitchers, Western Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper and Least Sandpiper. Highlights were,<\/p>\n

\"Red-necked
Red-necked Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… a couple of Red-necked Phalarope,<\/p>\n

\"Stilt
Stilt Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… around fifteen Stilt Sandpipers,<\/p>\n

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

… and about a half dozen Wilson’s Phalarope. An honourable mention goes to the Virginia Rail that made a quick flight from one patch of bullrush to another between the shore birds. Not wanting to give up on the Sora, I made my way back to the warming hut area. Some birds splashing away taking a bath caught my attention and on closer examination the Sora was one of them.<\/p>\n

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

It then made its way back and forth along the waters edge.<\/p>\n

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

Or should I say muddy edge. Not the best back drop for photos, but fun to see and spend some time with this infrequent visitor to the sanctuary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After not being able to do it last weekend, I made my way out to volunteer on the trails at Reifel this afternoon. There were a few more people than in recent weeks and some interesting birds to boot. Just inside the entrance a Sora had been showing well around the warming hut area. As … Continue reading “Sora”<\/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":[116,61,178,49,51],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-barn-swallow","tag-red-necked-phalarope","tag-sora","tag-stilt-sandpiper","tag-wilsons-phalarope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","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=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}