{"id":3373,"date":"2013-11-17T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T03:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2013-11-17T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T03:17:09","slug":"saw-whet-night-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3373","title":{"rendered":"Saw-whet &#038; Night-Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day was better than I expected weather wise, but the breeze was cool.\u00a0On arriving at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> I was a little surprised by the smaller crowd\u00a0this afternoon. Some of the interesting birds that had been seen of late, Swamp and Tree Sparrow, had not been spotted today. But one sign that winter is coming,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3374\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3374\" alt=\"Northern Saw-whet Owl\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NSWO062b.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NSWO062b.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NSWO062b-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NSWO062b-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Saw-whet Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; is the arrival of the tiny Northern Saw-whet Owl. They have been around for a couple of weeks now, but are starting to show up regularly along the public trails.<\/p>\n<p>On my way back at the end of the day was another winter regular,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3375\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3375\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3375\" alt=\"Black-crowned Night-Heron\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/BCNH087.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/BCNH087.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/BCNH087-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/BCNH087-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-crowned Night-Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; the Black-crowned Night-Heron. This one was at the foot of the east dyke trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day was better than I expected weather wise, but the breeze was cool.\u00a0On arriving at Reifel I was a little surprised by the smaller crowd\u00a0this afternoon. Some of the interesting birds that had been seen of late, Swamp and Tree Sparrow, had not been spotted today. But one sign that winter is coming, &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3373\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saw-whet &#038; Night-Heron&#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":[139,14],"class_list":["post-3373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-black-crowned-night-heron","tag-northern-saw-whet-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373","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=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}