{"id":2836,"date":"2012-10-23T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2012-10-24T00:01:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T07:01:49","slug":"song-birds-mallard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2836","title":{"rendered":"Song Birds &#038; Mallard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weather wise it was not a pleasant morning. After the rain let up it was still overcast and on the cool side when I headed out the door for a walk. Nothing out of the ordinary so that allowed for some time with the regulars.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2837\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2837\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2837\" title=\"Spotted Towhee\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SPTO024.jpg\" alt=\"Spotted Towhee\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SPTO024.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SPTO024-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SPTO024-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SPTO024-452x300.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-2837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spotted Towhee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite still being a little gloomy along the trails,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2838\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2838\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2838\" title=\"Dark-eyed Junco\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DEJU019.jpg\" alt=\"Dark-eyed Junco\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DEJU019.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DEJU019-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DEJU019-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DEJU019-452x300.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-2838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dark-eyed Junco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; I still managed a few shots.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2839\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2839\" title=\"Song Sparrow\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SOSP029.jpg\" alt=\"Song Sparrow\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SOSP029.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SOSP029-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SOSP029-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SOSP029-452x300.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-2839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Song Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This one spot was active with this Song Sparrow using the same perch as the Junco.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2840\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2840\" title=\"Mallard\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MALL046.jpg\" alt=\"Mallard\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MALL046.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MALL046-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MALL046-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MALL046-452x300.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-2840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the waterfowl front there never seems to be any shortage of these. This female Mallard is fanning her wings after finishing a preening session. This was also the finish of my walk as it was starting to rain again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather wise it was not a pleasant morning. After the rain let up it was still overcast and on the cool side when I headed out the door for a walk. Nothing out of the ordinary so that allowed for some time with the regulars. Despite still being a little gloomy along the trails, &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Song Birds &#038; Mallard&#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":[16,22,17,107],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-dark-eyed-junco","tag-mallard","tag-song-sparrow","tag-spotted-towhee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","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=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}