{"id":2862,"date":"2012-11-13T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2012-11-19T00:47:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T07:47:03","slug":"cave-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2862","title":{"rendered":"Cave Swallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rare bird for this area was observed and reported at Iona\u00a0Island a\u00a0couple of days ago. Spotted flying\u00a0with three Barn Swallows, was a Cave Swallow. It is late in the year to be seeing Barn Swallows, but a Cave Swallow is rare in deed with this being the first record for this species in British Columbia. Having been teased\u00a0the other day about not having been out\u00a0to see it yet, I\u00a0made my way out there today. The only problem being it was a rather gloomy and overcast day. Not the best conditions to try a get a swallow in flight.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2863\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2863\" title=\"Cave Swallow\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CASW001.jpg\" alt=\"Cave Swallow\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CASW001.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CASW001-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CASW001-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CASW001-452x300.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-2863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cave Swallow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was not long after arriving I spotted four swallows with one being the Cave Swallow. This birds normal\u00a0summer\u00a0range would be the Texas area, wintering further south. So being this far north at this time of year is quite out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2864\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2864\" title=\"Cave Swallow\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CASW004.jpg\" alt=\"Cave Swallow\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CASW004.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CASW004-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CASW004-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CASW004-452x300.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-2864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cave Swallow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As you can see the conditions were less than ideal, but I did manage a few record shots. The Cave Swallow will differ from the similar Cliff Swallow having &#8220;pale throat and cheek contrasting with dark cap&#8221; (Sibley). The forehead and rump are also buffy in colour. I wish the conditions had been better, but it was still good being able to see and photograph this bird. The Cave Swallow is also a new addition to my life photo list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare bird for this area was observed and reported at Iona\u00a0Island a\u00a0couple of days ago. Spotted flying\u00a0with three Barn Swallows, was a Cave Swallow. It is late in the year to be seeing Barn Swallows, but a Cave Swallow is rare in deed with this being the first record for this species in British &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cave Swallow&#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":[9,53],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-iona-island","tag-cave-swallow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","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=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions\/2866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}