{"id":3186,"date":"2013-06-09T19:45:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T02:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2013-06-09T19:45:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T02:45:14","slug":"bullocks-oriole-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3186","title":{"rendered":"Bullock&#8217;s Oriole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not the potential large crowd for a Sunday afternoon at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a>, but still a good number of visitors. Aside from all the new waterfowl arrivals in varying stages of development, it was fairly quiet on the birding front. There was a report of a juvenile Great Horned Owl, but I and others were unable to relocate it. There was some interesting activity though, a Bullock&#8217;s Oriole pair.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3187\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3187\" alt=\"Bullock's Oriole\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BUOR013.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BUOR013.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BUOR013-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BUOR013-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BUOR013-450x300.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-3187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bullock&#8217;s Oriole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The male as seen above,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3188\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3188\" alt=\"Bullock's Oriole\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BUOR014.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BUOR014.jpg 400w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BUOR014-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BUOR014-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bullock&#8217;s Oriole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; and the female not far away gathering nesting material. It&#8217;s been a few years since the sanctuary has had a nesting record for Bullock&#8217;s Oriole.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus shot and entertainment for the afternoon,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3189\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3189\" alt=\"Mink\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Mink011.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Mink011.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Mink011-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Mink011-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Mink011-450x300.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-3189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; was this Mink catching voles along the outside dyke trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not the potential large crowd for a Sunday afternoon at Reifel, but still a good number of visitors. Aside from all the new waterfowl arrivals in varying stages of development, it was fairly quiet on the birding front. There was a report of a juvenile Great Horned Owl, but I and others were unable to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3186\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bullock&#8217;s Oriole&#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":[164,58],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","category-other-photos","tag-bullocks-oriole","tag-mink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","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=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}