{"id":3026,"date":"2013-03-05T23:30:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T07:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2013-03-06T00:16:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T08:16:03","slug":"northern-saw-whet-owl-pintail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3026","title":{"rendered":"Northern Saw-whet Owl & Pintail"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was still overcast when I headed out, but the wind was fading and the rain holding off. There was only a handful of people at Reifel<\/a>. This can be a good thing in terms of it being quiet and a good chance for photography. Unfortunately it was just as quiet on the birding front with the ponds even being devoid of much activity. While walking the east dyke trail I checked in on the usual Northern Saw-whet that is most vulnerable. It was present again this afternoon, but initially had its back to me. Just as I was about to continue it slowly turned around and seemed to be watching the song birds on the trail.<\/p>\n

\"Northern
Northern Saw-whet Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This provided a brief opportunity to photograph this little beauty awake and with its eyes open. It then casually turned back around and went back to sleep, with a big thank-you from me of course. The other trails were not turning up much so I checked the inside ponds. The problem being the overcast skies were not providing the right light to generate nice reflective colours on the water.<\/p>\n

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

The closest I got to what I was looking for was this shot of a Northern Pintail. So, not having much luck finding the right reflections\/colours,<\/p>\n

\"Wood
Wood Duck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… you settle for a fun shot like this Wood Duck pair. While these perching ducks are quite at home in the trees, they are equally adept in pillaging the feeders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was still overcast when I headed out, but the wind was fading and the rain holding off. There was only a handful of people at Reifel. This can be a good thing in terms of it being quiet and a good chance for photography. Unfortunately it was just as quiet on the birding front … Continue reading “Northern Saw-whet Owl & Pintail”<\/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":[132,14,96],"class_list":["post-3026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-northern-pintail","tag-northern-saw-whet-owl","tag-wood-duck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026","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=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3031,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions\/3031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}