{"id":2945,"date":"2013-01-12T23:47:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T07:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2013-01-12T23:53:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T07:53:18","slug":"owl-meadowlark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2945","title":{"rendered":"Owl &#038; Meadowlark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another brisk sunny day and lots of people out walking and enjoying it. Today&#8217;s\u00a0stroll\u00a0took me to Brunswick Point where there were several other birders\/photographers in addition to everyone else. From the birding perspective it seemed like mostly the regulars at the start. Half way along the trail I noticed a Short-eared Owl land in the farm field adjacent to the trail.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2946\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2946\" alt=\"Short-eared Owl\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SEOW111.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SEOW111.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SEOW111-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SEOW111-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Short-eared Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once I made my way up to it I could see it was just taking a break from hunting over the marsh and resting in the sun.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2947\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2947\" alt=\"Short-eared Owl\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SEOW112.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SEOW112.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SEOW112-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SEOW112-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Short-eared Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was not long before others were stopping beside me to see what I was looking at. It was far enough away that the Short-eared Owl was not overly concerned and continued to\u00a0rest a while longer before\u00a0its next\u00a0sortie\u00a0in search of food.<\/p>\n<p>As I continued my walk I was joined briefly by some birding friends. We discussed recent sightings as we made our way south along the trail. Prior to splitting up he commented on how some Meadowlarks would be nice. As luck would have it, for me anyways,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2948\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2948\" alt=\"Western Meadowlark\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/WEME005.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/WEME005.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/WEME005-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/WEME005-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/WEME005-452x300.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-2948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Western Meadowlark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; on my way back I came across two Western Meadowlarks. They were busy foraging in the marsh, but I was unable to get a better angle on them before they flew off to the other side of the dyke and out of sight in the fields. A nice find to finish the afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another brisk sunny day and lots of people out walking and enjoying it. Today&#8217;s\u00a0stroll\u00a0took me to Brunswick Point where there were several other birders\/photographers in addition to everyone else. From the birding perspective it seemed like mostly the regulars at the start. Half way along the trail I noticed a Short-eared Owl land in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2945\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Owl &#038; Meadowlark&#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":[9,12],"tags":[8,123],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-brunswick-point","tag-short-eared-owl","tag-western-meadowlark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","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=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}