{"id":2961,"date":"2013-01-22T20:06:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T04:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2013-01-22T20:40:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T04:40:04","slug":"thrush-bluetail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2961","title":{"rendered":"Thrush & Bluetail"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was out last Friday to try and get some more photos of the Red-flanked Bluetail, but did not succeed in getting anything better. The plan was to set up in area I knew from previous observations it liked to frequent and even pause for a moment. Unfortunately there were too many people chasing the bird from tree to tree and on more than one occasion, wandering through where I was set up as the bird was approaching. A little frustrating to say the least.<\/p>\n

\"Varied
Varied Thrush<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Consolation bird for the day was this Varied Thrush.<\/p>\n

I returned again this afternoon and the plan was the same. I set up in an area I knew the bird likes to return to, and as I noted above, will actually pause for a while if not disturbed. It came close a couple of times, but still had people tagging along. After a couple of hours I could see the bird approaching once more and this time the people were a little further behind it.<\/p>\n

\"Red-flanked
Red-flanked Bluetail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally it came in to the spot where I was waiting.<\/p>\n

\"Red-flanked
Red-flanked Bluetail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And as I had observed before it seemed content to rest briefly,<\/p>\n

\"Red-flanked
Red-flanked Bluetail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… until the small group of birders once again approached too close and flushed it. At least this time I managed a couple of better shots and\u00a0a little\u00a0patience paid off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was out last Friday to try and get some more photos of the Red-flanked Bluetail, but did not succeed in getting anything better. The plan was to set up in area I knew from previous observations it liked to frequent and even pause for a moment. Unfortunately there were too many people chasing the … Continue reading “Thrush & Bluetail”<\/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":[9,187],"tags":[188,189],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-queens-park","tag-red-flanked-bluetail","tag-varied-thrush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","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=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}