{"id":3002,"date":"2013-02-17T21:57:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2013-02-17T21:57:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T05:57:09","slug":"american-bittern-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3002","title":{"rendered":"American Bittern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the nice weather it was another busy Sunday afternoon while volunteering at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a>. A good part of my afternoon was spent keeping tabs on one of the Northern Saw-whet Owls in a vulnerable spot along the east dyke trail. It has gotten bad enough with visitors getting too close that staff have had to erect temporary fencing. Once things settled down towards the end of the day I did manage to get a brief walk in. While heading out along the outer dyke trail in search of my nemesis bird, Swamp Sparrow, there was a pleasant surprise skulking in the blown down reeds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3003\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3003\" alt=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AMBI074.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AMBI074.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AMBI074-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AMBI074-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AMBI074-452x300.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-3003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An American Bittern was busy\u00a0foraging and feeding on small minnows. I stayed put here to point out this usually secretive heron to visitors. Everyone was delighted as it is not often you can sit back and watch these birds out in the open for this length of time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3004\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3004\" alt=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AMBI075.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AMBI075.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AMBI075-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AMBI075-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When photographing American Bittern I always try to get a shot of them when they are standing tall in the reeds.\u00a0They blend in so well it helps, as in this photo,\u00a0to try and get them\u00a0when there is\u00a0a break in the reeds. You still capture their natural habitat and the clearer section helps highlight the bird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the nice weather it was another busy Sunday afternoon while volunteering at Reifel. A good part of my afternoon was spent keeping tabs on one of the Northern Saw-whet Owls in a vulnerable spot along the east dyke trail. It has gotten bad enough with visitors getting too close that staff have had to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3002\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Bittern&#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":[124],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-american-bittern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","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=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3006,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions\/3006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}