{"id":3221,"date":"2013-07-21T23:24:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2013-07-21T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T06:24:07","slug":"phalarope-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3221","title":{"rendered":"Phalarope &#038; Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another beautiful summer afternoon\u00a0to be\u00a0out volunteering a <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a>. It was a decent crowd for this time of year with a couple of pleasant surprises. First up in the outer ponds,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3222\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3222\" alt=\"Wilson's Phalarope\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/WIPH036.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/WIPH036.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/WIPH036-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/WIPH036-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/WIPH036-450x300.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-3222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wilson&#8217;s Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; were\u00a0three Wilson&#8217;s Phalaropes. They appeared to be juvenile birds,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3223\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3223\" alt=\"Wilson's Phalarope\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/WIPH037.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/WIPH037.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/WIPH037-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/WIPH037-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/WIPH037-450x300.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-3223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wilson&#8217;s Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; and this would be on the early side to see them arriving. Of course some of the usual suspects were around.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3224\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3224\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GBHE133.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GBHE133.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GBHE133-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GBHE133-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Blue Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Like this Great Blue Heron roosting in a conifer. The other surprise came at the end of the day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3225\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3225\" alt=\"Great Horned Owl\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GHOW057.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GHOW057.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GHOW057-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GHOW057-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Horned Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A juvenile Great Horned Owl snoozing away the afternoon. This was one of two, likely from the local pair\u00a0that nested in the Alaksen National Wildlife area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another beautiful summer afternoon\u00a0to be\u00a0out volunteering a Reifel. It was a decent crowd for this time of year with a couple of pleasant surprises. First up in the outer ponds, &#8230; were\u00a0three Wilson&#8217;s Phalaropes. They appeared to be juvenile birds, &#8230; and this would be on the early side to see them arriving. Of course &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3221\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Phalarope &#038; Owl&#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],"tags":[66,77,51],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-great-horned-owl","tag-wilsons-phalarope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","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=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}