{"id":3122,"date":"2013-04-30T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2013-04-30T23:19:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T06:19:47","slug":"teal-sparrow-mink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"Teal, Sparrow &#038; Mink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely afternoon, although still on the cool side with the breeze. The intent this afternoon was to try for warblers at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a>, but I got side tracked again on hearing there were a couple of Cinnamon Teal around. While I did locate one, it was in a pond well off the trail and too far for photos. At another pond they frequent there were some Green-winged Teal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3123\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3123\" alt=\"Green-winged Teal\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/GWTE009.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/GWTE009.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/GWTE009-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/GWTE009-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/GWTE009-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green-winged Teal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not quite the shot I was hoping for, but fun to get this Green-winged Teal pair foraging together. While watching the teal,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3124\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3124\" alt=\"House Sparrow\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/HOSP029.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/HOSP029.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/HOSP029-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/HOSP029-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/HOSP029-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; this House Sparrow landed nearby for a short while. Then the bonus shot of the day occurred on my way out along the east dyke trail.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3125\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3125\" alt=\"Mink\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mink010.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mink010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mink010-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mink010-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This Mink came running right up to me with a bullfrog in its mouth. The lighting was a little harsh, but there is not much you can do about that in these spur of the moment situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely afternoon, although still on the cool side with the breeze. The intent this afternoon was to try for warblers at Reifel, but I got side tracked again on hearing there were a couple of Cinnamon Teal around. While I did locate one, it was in a pond well off the trail and too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teal, Sparrow &#038; Mink&#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":[9,11,28],"tags":[101,114,58],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","category-other-photos","tag-green-winged-teal","tag-house-sparrow","tag-mink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","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=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}