{"id":3044,"date":"2013-03-10T22:35:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T06:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2013-03-10T22:45:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T06:45:17","slug":"american-bittern-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3044","title":{"rendered":"American Bittern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little overcast today, but at least it was not raining. Probably the reason for the smaller number of people at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> for a Sunday afternoon. Apparently they had good numbers yesterday with the sunshine. Helping out on the trails again there were a\u00a0few Northern Saw-whet Owls along with a single Great Horned Owl to show visitors. None of the owls were in vulnerable spots, thus not requiring steady attention by the volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>While making my way out along the outer dyke and west marsh area I caught a fleeting glimpse of a sparrow working its way along\u00a0below the trail\u00a0deep in the bramble and bushes. What got my attention was\u00a0some noticeable rufous colouring. Could it be my nemesis bird, the elusive Swamp Sparrow. I continued working the area, but could not relocate the bird. While doing this I spotted an American Bittern at the edge of the pond. It to quickly disappeared into the reeds, so at this point I was not having much luck with anything. As I continued to scour the trail for the sparrow the bittern flew back in to the area of wind flattened reeds next to the new viewing platform.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3045\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3045\" alt=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AMBI079.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AMBI079.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AMBI079-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AMBI079-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AMBI079-452x300.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-3045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Finally a chance to get some shots of something and much to the delight of a few visitors that had been waiting since I had mentioned seeing one to them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3046\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3046\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3046\" alt=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AMBI081.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AMBI081.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AMBI081-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AMBI081-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AMBI081-452x300.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-3046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Likely the same bird that has been frequenting this spot for a few weeks now.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3047\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3047\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3047\" alt=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AMBI082.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AMBI082.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AMBI082-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AMBI082-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At this point it was getting too close for my lens, but I had nowhere to back-up to without loosing a clear line of sight. Not often you complain about this with an American\u00a0Bittern. So I just sat back and enjoyed along with the others visitors that continued to come by.\u00a0Occasionally I would break away to search for the sparrow, but\u00a0never relocated it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little overcast today, but at least it was not raining. Probably the reason for the smaller number of people at Reifel for a Sunday afternoon. Apparently they had good numbers yesterday with the sunshine. Helping out on the trails again there were a\u00a0few Northern Saw-whet Owls along with a single Great Horned Owl to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3044\" 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-3044","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\/3044","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=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}