{"id":3056,"date":"2013-03-24T21:34:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T05:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2013-03-24T21:34:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T05:34:21","slug":"creeper-saw-whet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3056","title":{"rendered":"Creeper & Saw-whet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Sunday afternoon volunteering at Reifel<\/a>. The skies were a little overcast at first, but there were still a good number of visitors. While still on the cool side, there were definite signs of spring in the air with the Marsh & Bewicks Wrens singing, Swallows flying overhead and even a Bushtit nest under construction. The American Bittern was still showing along the outside dyke, although a little more hidden when I saw it. Back along the east dyke trail,<\/p>\n

\"Brown
Brown Creeper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… I managed this shot of a Brown Creeper as it foraged along the tree line. But, once again, the highlight of the afternoon for most visitors was a Northern Saw-whet Owl. It was\u00a0not too far off the trail in some overhanging branches and in plain sight. While it spent most of its time sleeping,<\/p>\n

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

… there was a moment when something got its attention briefly.<\/p>\n

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

Then it was back to sleep again. A winter visitor, The Northern Saw-whet Owls are usually gone from the sanctuary by the end of this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another Sunday afternoon volunteering at Reifel. The skies were a little overcast at first, but there were still a good number of visitors. While still on the cool side, there were definite signs of spring in the air with the Marsh & Bewicks Wrens singing, Swallows flying overhead and even a Bushtit nest under construction. … Continue reading “Creeper & Saw-whet”<\/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":[50,14],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-brown-creeper","tag-northern-saw-whet-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","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=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3061,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/3061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}