{"id":3021,"date":"2013-03-03T23:30:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T07:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2013-03-04T00:12:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T08:12:33","slug":"sandhill-crane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3021","title":{"rendered":"Sandhill Crane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little on the windy side, but a nice day overall that did bring decent numbers out to <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a>. The most vulnerable Northern Saw-whet Owl along the east dyke trail decided to return today of all days after being absent from that location for almost a week. That meant the volunteers, myself included, took turns keeping an eye on it. I did manage a couple of\u00a0quick walks during the course of the afternoon when not watching activity around the owl. There have been a few additional Sandhill Cranes spending the winter in the sanctuary in addition to the resident pair.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3022\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3022\" alt=\"Sandhill Crane\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SACR088.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SACR088.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SACR088-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SACR088-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandhill Crane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They were together in the centre display ponds,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3023\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3023\" alt=\"Sandhill Crane\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SACR092.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SACR092.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SACR092-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SACR092-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SACR092-452x300.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-3023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandhill Crane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; and provided the best photo op for me today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little on the windy side, but a nice day overall that did bring decent numbers out to Reifel. The most vulnerable Northern Saw-whet Owl along the east dyke trail decided to return today of all days after being absent from that location for almost a week. That meant the volunteers, myself included, took turns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3021\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sandhill Crane&#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":[37],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-sandhill-crane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","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=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3025,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}