{"id":2870,"date":"2012-11-30T23:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2012-12-01T00:30:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T07:30:07","slug":"snowy-owl-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2870","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Later in the afternoon there was a cessation in the rain and I was out the door. It was back to Boundary Bay for the Palm Warbler that is still alluding me after several attempts and some\u00a0American Tree Sparrows I saw the other day. On arriving it was still overcast and fairly breezy. While I did see some sparrows and warblers, there was not much activity on the small bird front. There was one Northern Shrike moving between trees,\u00a0several\u00a0Northern Harriers, Short-eared Owls, Rough-legged Hawks and Bald Eagles all active over the marsh. But the action that got my attention was that some of the Snowy Owls were mobile. While they were occasionally harassed by Harriers,<\/p>\n

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Snowy Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… they were also chasing and jousting with each other. They appeared to be duking out over roosting spots. One of the contested spots was a log fairly close to the dyke that I managed to set up on without having to venture out into the marsh.<\/p>\n

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Snowy Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This Snowy Owl is still vocalizing with another after\u00a0returning to this spot.<\/p>\n

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Snowy Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After settling down it\u00a0slowly made its way out to the end of the log.<\/p>\n

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Snowy Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once there, and with the Snowy Owl comfortable with my being there, I was able to shift my position a little for this shot. Just when it thought it might have a peaceful roost\u00a0for a while, a tractor\/mower happened to come along the dyke flushing the owl back out into the marsh. Still, some unexpected and fun activity to watch and photograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Later in the afternoon there was a cessation in the rain and I was out the door. It was back to Boundary Bay for the Palm Warbler that is still alluding me after several attempts and some\u00a0American Tree Sparrows I saw the other day. On arriving it was still overcast and fairly breezy. While I … Continue reading “Snowy Owl”<\/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":[5],"class_list":["post-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-snowy-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","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=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2877,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}