{"id":2903,"date":"2012-12-14T22:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2012-12-14T23:47:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T06:47:41","slug":"great-blue-heron-barred-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2903","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron &#038; Barred Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still on the cool side, it was not a bad day weather wise today. This afternoon&#8217;s walk was at <a title=\"George C. Reifel  Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> which can be a little quieter on the people front during the week. So while the trails were relatively peaceful, I was not having much luck with subjects willing to pose for the camera. When all else fails,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2904\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2904\" title=\"Great Blue Heron\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/GBHE128.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/GBHE128.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/GBHE128-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/GBHE128-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Blue Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; you can always fall back on one of the regulars. This Great Blue Heron was roosting on some dead fall along the inside of the centre dyke trail. Another regular I have not seen for sometime inside the sanctuary,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2905\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2905\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2905\" alt=\"Barred Owl\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BADO043.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BADO043.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BADO043-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BADO043-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barred Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; is the Barred Owl. When I started my walk it was tucked away in the trees in the northeast corner. Great for viewing, but a lousy spot\/lighting for photos. Towards the end of the day I made my way back by the same corner and found the Barred Owl had moved to this tree out in the open.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2906\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2906\" alt=\"Barred Owl\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BADO044.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BADO044.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BADO044-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BADO044-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barred Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Certainly cannot complain about this opportunity. Once again\u00a0the regulars\u00a0show how they can come through in a pinch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still on the cool side, it was not a bad day weather wise today. This afternoon&#8217;s walk was at Reifel which can be a little quieter on the people front during the week. So while the trails were relatively peaceful, I was not having much luck with subjects willing to pose for the camera. When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2903\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great Blue Heron &#038; Barred Owl&#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":[141,66],"class_list":["post-2903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-barred-owl","tag-great-blue-heron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903","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=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2908,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions\/2908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}