{"id":2828,"date":"2012-10-21T22:57:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T05:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2012-10-21T22:59:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T05:59:58","slug":"great-blue-heron-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2828","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While following a Mink around the trails at <a title=\"George C. Reifel  Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> this afternoon I happened across a Great Blue Heron. It was standing still along the edge of the trail. I liked the tall green reeds in the background along with the fallen autumn leaves in the foreground so I stopped.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2829\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2829\" title=\"Great Blue Heron\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE117.jpg\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE117.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE117-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE117-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Blue Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the Great Blue Heron you have to keep in mind that standing motionless is how they hunt, always scanning their surroundings for prey.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2830\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2830\" title=\"Great Blue Heron\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE118.jpg\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE118.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE118-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE118-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE118-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Blue Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was not long before this one spotted something and slowly moved in for the strike.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2831\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2831\" title=\"Great Blue Heron\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE124.jpg\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE124.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE124-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE124-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE124-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Blue Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the menu today was a plump Vole. The Great Blue Heron will eat just about anything. After this it moved into the adjacent pond for a while.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2832\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2832\" title=\"Great Blue Heron\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE126.jpg\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE126.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE126-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GBHE126-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Blue Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When I happened by again half an hour later it was back on the trail. As for the Mink, never did manage a decent shot of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While following a Mink around the trails at Reifel this afternoon I happened across a Great Blue Heron. It was standing still along the edge of the trail. I liked the tall green reeds in the background along with the fallen autumn leaves in the foreground so I stopped. With the Great Blue Heron you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2828\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great Blue Heron&#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":[9,11],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-great-blue-heron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","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=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}