{"id":3257,"date":"2013-08-04T23:30:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T06:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2013-08-18T23:09:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T06:09:58","slug":"coot-phalarope-cowbird-merlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3257","title":{"rendered":"Coot, Phalarope, Cowbird &#038; Merlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Sunday afternoon at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a>. The juvenile American Coot from last week was still present today. Only this time,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3258\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3258\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3258\" alt=\"American Coot\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AMCO015.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AMCO015.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AMCO015-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AMCO015-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AMCO015-450x300.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-3258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Coot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; it was less wary of people and allowed for a closer shot. A couple of weeks ago it was some juvenile Wilson&#8217;s Phalarope that made an early appearance.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3259\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3259\" alt=\"Red-necked Phalarope\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/RNPH043.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/RNPH043.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/RNPH043-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/RNPH043-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/RNPH043-450x300.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-3259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red-necked Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This afternoon it was the first Red-necked Phalarope. Along with the Dowitchers and Yelllowlegs, there was also five Pectoral Sandpipers.\u00a0On my way back along the east dyke trail,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3260\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3260\" alt=\"Brown-headed Cowbird\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/BHCO004.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/BHCO004.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/BHCO004-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/BHCO004-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/BHCO004-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown-headed Cowbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; there was this lone juvenile Brown-headed Cowbird. And the bonus bird of the day at the foot of the trail,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3261\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3261\" alt=\"Merlin\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MERL024.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MERL024.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MERL024-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MERL024-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; was this Merlin. It had just finished eating and was being harassed by the song birds in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Sunday afternoon at Reifel. The juvenile American Coot from last week was still present today. Only this time, &#8230; it was less wary of people and allowed for a closer shot. A couple of weeks ago it was some juvenile Wilson&#8217;s Phalarope that made an early appearance. This afternoon it was the first Red-necked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coot, Phalarope, Cowbird &#038; Merlin&#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":[131,115,177,61],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-american-coot","tag-brown-headed-cowbird","tag-merlin","tag-red-necked-phalarope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","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=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3263,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}