{"id":3360,"date":"2013-10-27T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2013-11-03T20:51:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T04:51:05","slug":"american-bittern-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3360","title":{"rendered":"American Bittern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people out and about on this lovely Sunday afternoon. It was the first time I have encountered a line up to get over the Westham Island bridge. Lots of families going to the farms for their Halloween pumpkins. <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> was equally as busy when I arrived to help out on the trails. While it was fairly quiet on the birding front, there was one bird that provided a little excitement for birders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3361\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3361\" alt=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/AMBI086.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/AMBI086.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/AMBI086-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/AMBI086-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/AMBI086-375x300.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-3361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This American Bittern was providing good views along the west dyke. Usually a fairly secretive bird, it is always fun when you have a chance to see\u00a0a Bittern in the open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people out and about on this lovely Sunday afternoon. It was the first time I have encountered a line up to get over the Westham Island bridge. Lots of families going to the farms for their Halloween pumpkins. Reifel was equally as busy when I arrived to help out on the trails. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3360\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Bittern&#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":[124],"class_list":["post-3360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-american-bittern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360","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=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}