{"id":2853,"date":"2012-11-10T23:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2012-11-11T02:13:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T09:13:44","slug":"american-tree-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2853","title":{"rendered":"American Tree Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather and a couple of other things that needed doing have resulted in my not being out in a while. A little frustrating now that there have been a couple of nice days. Then a friend phones and leaves a message that he saw a Long-eared Owl at Boundary Bay. As luck would have it I was working that day and was not back in time to get out for it either. Needless to say this afternoon was free and I headed out to Boundary Bay. I was quite surprised to several birders and photographers there when I arrived. On speaking to a few they indicated some Snowy Owls have showed up, a Palm Warbler was spotted yesterday and of course the Long-eared Owl from the other day. I decided to head east along the dyke where the warbler had been seen. I have not seen or photographed one before. Not having much luck with it I started watching several groups of Sparrows and Finches. Then one in particular caught my eye,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2854\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2854\" title=\"American Tree Sparrow\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ATSP014.jpg\" alt=\"American Tree Sparrow\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ATSP014.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ATSP014-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ATSP014-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Tree Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; an American Tree Sparrow. Watching and waiting for a while I observed there were two of them. Unfortunately they were not coming any closer for a chance of better shots. A nice find and consolation bird not having found the warbler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather and a couple of other things that needed doing have resulted in my not being out in a while. A little frustrating now that there have been a couple of nice days. Then a friend phones and leaves a message that he saw a Long-eared Owl at Boundary Bay. As luck would have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2853\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Tree Sparrow&#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":[9,10],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-american-tree-sparrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853","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=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2856,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions\/2856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}