{"id":2970,"date":"2013-02-01T22:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T06:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2013-02-01T22:30:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T06:30:44","slug":"red-crossbill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2970","title":{"rendered":"Red Crossbill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On arriving at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> this afternoon I was encouraged to hear that a Swamp Sparrow was still being seen. Today&#8217;s sighting was near the tower instead of the usual southwest marsh area. I made my way there via the east and north dyke trails counting five Northern Saw-whet Owls along the way. Positioning myself so I could observe all the intersecting trails at the tower I began the waiting game. Lots of Spotted Tohwee, Song Sparrow and Golden-crowned Sparrow in addition to all the Red-winged Blackbird, but no Swamp Sparrow. This is currently one of my nemesis birds. Then while shifting my position some movement in the conifers caught my attention.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2971\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2971\" alt=\"Red Crossbill\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RECR003.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RECR003.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RECR003-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RECR003-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Crossbill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was a Red Crossbill feeding on the pine cones.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2972\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2972\" alt=\"Red Crossbill\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RECR005.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RECR005.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RECR005-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RECR005-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Crossbill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Turns out there were actually two of them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2973\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2973\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2973\" alt=\"Red Crossbill\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RECR006.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RECR006.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RECR006-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RECR006-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RECR006-452x300.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-2973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Crossbill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So the day was not a total loss. While I was skunked again on the Swamp Sparrow, the Red Crossbill is a new addition to my life photo list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On arriving at Reifel this afternoon I was encouraged to hear that a Swamp Sparrow was still being seen. Today&#8217;s sighting was near the tower instead of the usual southwest marsh area. I made my way there via the east and north dyke trails counting five Northern Saw-whet Owls along the way. Positioning myself so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2970\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Red Crossbill&#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":[190],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-red-crossbill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","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=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}