{"id":2812,"date":"2012-10-14T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T03:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2012-10-15T02:40:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T09:40:13","slug":"white-throated-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2812","title":{"rendered":"White-throated Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the wind and rain warnings in the weather forecast for today I was not holding out much hope for a walk. Around lunch it started to slow down a little and just after one the rain stopped. Realizing there would probably not be much of a break I headed out to Reifel<\/a>. I normally try to volunteer there on Sunday afternoon’s. There were only a handful of cars in the parking lot on arriving. Not surprising given the earlier conditions. On speaking with Brian, another volunteer, he mentioned a couple of White-throated Sparrows had been seen earlier. Yippee! My odds just increased and I was off to try again. I was about half way along the east dyke trail scanning sparrows when something different got my attention.<\/p>\n

\"White-throated
White-throated Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally I had managed to locate one of the White-throated Sparrows.<\/p>\n

\"White-throated
White-throated Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An uncommon visitor to this area that can usually be seen this time of year.<\/p>\n

\"White-throated
White-throated Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The White-throated Sparrow, along with others, spend a lot of time foraging on the ground. With this in mind the tripod was collapsed low and I was shooting from my knees. Much the same approach as with the shore birds on the beach. While it is great when you can them perching on a nice branch, sometimes you just have to go where they are.<\/p>\n

\"White-throated
White-throated Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It has been four years since my last photos of a White-throated Sparrow. The perseverance of the last week or so finally paid off.<\/p>\n

\"Brown
Brown Creeper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bonus bird photo of the day was this Brown Creeper on my way back as the rain was starting again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the wind and rain warnings in the weather forecast for today I was not holding out much hope for a walk. Around lunch it started to slow down a little and just after one the rain stopped. Realizing there would probably not be much of a break I headed out to Reifel. I normally … Continue reading “White-throated Sparrow”<\/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":[50,183],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-brown-creeper","tag-white-throated-sparrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","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=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}