{"id":2910,"date":"2012-12-16T19:11:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T03:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2012-12-16T19:11:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T03:11:49","slug":"night-heron-saw-whet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2910","title":{"rendered":"Night-Heron &#038; Saw-whet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm, that title sounds familiar. Probably because it is what I used two weeks ago also on a Sunday and volunteering at <a title=\"George C. Reifel  Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a>. While there was a few other things to see, it was the same two birds that provided the best photo opportunities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2911\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2911\" alt=\"Black-crowned Night-Heron\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BCNH085b.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BCNH085b.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BCNH085b-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BCNH085b-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-crowned Night-Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the six Black-crowned Night-Heron currently in the sanctuary was roosting on a fallen tree in Fuller&#8217;s Slough. As I mentioned in another recent post, always fun to get them in different spots.<\/p>\n<p>While there was a high count of five Northern Saw-whet Owls not long ago, my last few visits I have only ever managed to see one. Such was the case again this afternoon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2912\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2912\" alt=\"Northern Saw-whet Owl\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NSWO047.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NSWO047.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NSWO047-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NSWO047-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Saw-whet Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A lot of visitors were walking right by it as it was tucked away\u00a0lower in the branches today. I took several groups back so they could get a look at it. To get this shot the tripod was collapsed all the way down looking up under the tree. I also used\u00a0a cable release and the mirror up function as the shutter speed was quite low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm, that title sounds familiar. Probably because it is what I used two weeks ago also on a Sunday and volunteering at Reifel. While there was a few other things to see, it was the same two birds that provided the best photo opportunities. One of the six Black-crowned Night-Heron currently in the sanctuary was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2910\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Night-Heron &#038; Saw-whet&#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":[139,14],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-black-crowned-night-heron","tag-northern-saw-whet-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","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=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}