{"id":3414,"date":"2013-12-22T20:30:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T04:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2013-12-22T20:33:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T04:33:49","slug":"sparrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3414","title":{"rendered":"Sparrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a light drizzle and it was starting to get foggy when heading out to volunteer at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a>. On arriving the parking lot was fairly empty, but that is to be expected this close to Christmas. Some of the regular birders and volunteers were also helping out with the Ladner Christmas bird count today. While\u00a0a little on the gloomy side, I still tried to get a few photos. While watching the sparrows for something out of the ordinary,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3415\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3415\" alt=\"Dark-eyed Junco\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DEJU020.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DEJU020.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DEJU020-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DEJU020-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DEJU020-375x300.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-3415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dark-eyed Junco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; I managed this Dark-eyed Junco,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3416\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3416\" alt=\"Fox Sparrow\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FOSP025.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FOSP025.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FOSP025-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FOSP025-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FOSP025-375x300.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-3416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; and a Fox Sparrow along the east dyke trail.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3417\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3417\" alt=\"Lincoln's Sparrow\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LISP010.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LISP010.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LISP010-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LISP010-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lincoln&#8217;s Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then at the junction of\u00a0the inner display ponds this Lincoln&#8217;s Sparrow. As none were seen\u00a0when they did the count\u00a0here earlier today, this one got added to the tally.\u00a0I did get another glimpse of my current nemesis, the Swamp Sparrow, but still no photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a light drizzle and it was starting to get foggy when heading out to volunteer at Reifel. On arriving the parking lot was fairly empty, but that is to be expected this close to Christmas. Some of the regular birders and volunteers were also helping out with the Ladner Christmas bird count today. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3414\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sparrows&#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":[16,15,129],"class_list":["post-3414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-dark-eyed-junco","tag-fox-sparrow","tag-lincolns-sparrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414","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=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3421,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions\/3421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}