{"id":3129,"date":"2013-05-05T23:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2013-05-06T00:53:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T07:53:08","slug":"phalarope-teal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3129","title":{"rendered":"Phalarope & Teal"},"content":{"rendered":"

A beautiful day and lots of people out enjoying it at Reifel<\/a> this afternoon. There was some activity in the outer ponds with Dunlin, Western Sandpiper, Greater Yellowlegs and Long-billed Dowitcher present.<\/p>\n

\"Wilson's
Wilson’s Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The highlight though was this lone Wilson’s Phalarope.<\/p>\n

\"Wilson's
Wilson’s Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even better was that it was coming in close to the dyke trail.<\/p>\n

\"Wilson's
Wilson’s Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was getting everyone’s attention,<\/p>\n

\"Wilson's
Wilson’s Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Wilson's
Wilson’s Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… which is not so hard being quite pretty and standing out from the crowd.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day on my way out I stopped by the inner pond to check for the Cinnamon Teal which was seen again earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

\"Cinnamon
Cinnamon Teal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was initially foraging back in the reeds,<\/p>\n

\"Cinnamon
Cinnamon Teal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… but with a little patience it did make its way somewhat closer. The fact nobody else was around probably helped as they are usually quite shy and leery of people. A nice end to a fun afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A beautiful day and lots of people out enjoying it at Reifel this afternoon. There was some activity in the outer ponds with Dunlin, Western Sandpiper, Greater Yellowlegs and Long-billed Dowitcher present. The highlight though was this lone Wilson’s Phalarope. Even better was that it was coming in close to the dyke trail. It was … Continue reading “Phalarope & Teal”<\/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":[102,51],"class_list":["post-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-cinnamon-teal","tag-wilsons-phalarope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129","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=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}