{"id":312,"date":"2011-04-09T19:10:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T02:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=312"},"modified":"2011-12-06T01:22:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T09:22:57","slug":"not-what-i-was-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Not What I Was Looking For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got out for a walk this afternoon and headed down to Boundary Bay Regional Park in Tsawwassen. There had been a report of a Mountain Bluebird being seen. There were several in this area around the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p>After an initial check of the trails, no Bluebird was located. The ever present Northern Harriers were busy cruising the fields.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-313\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-313  \" title=\"Northern Harrier\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NOHA093.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Harrier\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NOHA093.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NOHA093-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NOHA093-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Harrier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No shortage of Crows hanging around either.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-314\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314  \" title=\"Northwestern Crow\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NOCR010.jpg\" alt=\"Northwestern Crow\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NOCR010.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NOCR010-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NOCR010-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northwestern Crow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I spent some more time in the area the Bluebird had been sighted in addition to the areas they frequented last spring, but not joy. When checking the beach area I did come across this Killdeer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315 \" title=\"Killdeer\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/KILL022.jpg\" alt=\"Killdeer\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/KILL022.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/KILL022-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/KILL022-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Killdeer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, while not what I was looking for, the afternoon was not a total loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got out for a walk this afternoon and headed down to Boundary Bay Regional Park in Tsawwassen. There had been a report of a Mountain Bluebird being seen. There were several in this area around the same time last year. After an initial check of the trails, no Bluebird was located. The ever present Northern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=312\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not What I Was Looking For&#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":[9,10],"tags":[62,121,122],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-killdeer","tag-northern-harrier","tag-northwestern-crow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}