{"id":3008,"date":"2013-02-19T23:33:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T07:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2013-02-19T23:33:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T07:33:41","slug":"flicker-grosbeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3008","title":{"rendered":"Flicker & Grosbeak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still not prepared to give up on the Swamp Sparrow I was back out at Reifel<\/a> again this afternoon. Made a couple of passes along the\u00a0west dyke trail to no avail. I might have to find a\u00a0new nemesis bird. There were a couple of cooperative subjects though along the centre dyke trail. Of the many Northern Flicker currently around,<\/p>\n

\"Northern
Northern Flicker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… this one stopped briefly on an old snag. Then not too far away,<\/p>\n

\"Evening
Evening Grosbeak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… were a couple of Evening Grosbeak chowing down on the few remaining Pacific crab apple. It was difficult getting an angle on these birds through the branches.<\/p>\n

\"Evening
Evening Grosbeak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As you can see in this shot there is a branch between the camera and the bird resulting in that faint line\u00a0across the rump. Thought I had avoided this but my attention was more on\u00a0focussing on the head. Sometimes you miss things like this and do not realise it until afterwards. That’s when there may be a few expletives followed by there is always next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still not prepared to give up on the Swamp Sparrow I was back out at Reifel again this afternoon. Made a couple of passes along the\u00a0west dyke trail to no avail. I might have to find a\u00a0new nemesis bird. There were a couple of cooperative subjects though along the centre dyke trail. Of the many … Continue reading “Flicker & Grosbeak”<\/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":[181,36],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-evening-grosbeak","tag-northern-flicker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","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=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3013,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}