{"id":3429,"date":"2013-12-31T20:54:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T04:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2013-12-31T20:54:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T04:54:02","slug":"american-tree-sparrow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3429","title":{"rendered":"American Tree Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last day of another year and this afternoon&#8217;s target bird was a Gyrfalcon. One had been sighted recently in the Boundary Bay area around 112 St. On checking the surrounding area and speaking with a few other\u00a0birders, there was no sign of the bird today.<\/p>\n<p>As the light rain was stopping, I decided to stop at 72 St. on the way home for another winter visitor. Heading east along the dyke it was at the end of the adjacent golf course that I spotted a likely group of sparrows. At first look I was just seeing White-crowned Sparrows,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3430\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3430\" alt=\"American Tree Sparrow\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ATSP016.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ATSP016.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ATSP016-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ATSP016-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ATSP016-375x300.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-3430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Tree Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; then the ones I was looking for, American Tree Sparrow. There were a few of them in the mixed flock and they were\u00a0constantly on the move between the mash and the trees on either side of the trail.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3431\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3431\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3431\" alt=\"American Tree Sparrow\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ATSP017.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ATSP017.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ATSP017-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ATSP017-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Tree Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This stretch of Boundary Bay is usually a good spot to see American Tree Sparrows each winter. A good end to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last day of another year and this afternoon&#8217;s target bird was a Gyrfalcon. One had been sighted recently in the Boundary Bay area around 112 St. On checking the surrounding area and speaking with a few other\u00a0birders, there was no sign of the bird today. As the light rain was stopping, I decided to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3429\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Tree Sparrow&#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":[9,10],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-3429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-american-tree-sparrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429","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=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}