{"id":3433,"date":"2014-01-03T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2014-01-05T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T19:50:46","slug":"hooded-merganser-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3433","title":{"rendered":"Hooded Merganser &#038; Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised by the number of visitors for a Friday when I arrived at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a>, but it was a nice day. The breeze was on the cool side, but it was petering out. Unfortunately it was fairly quiet on the birding front.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3434\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3434\" alt=\"Hooded Merganser\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HOME041a.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HOME041a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HOME041a-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HOME041a-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HOME041a-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-3434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hooded Merganser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I did find and spend some time with some Hooded Mergansers on one of the inner ponds in some nice light.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3435\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3435\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3435\" alt=\"Hooded Merganser\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HOME042.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HOME042.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HOME042-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HOME042-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HOME042-375x300.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-3435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hooded Merganser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Managing to get both male and female,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3436\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3436\" alt=\"Hooded Merganser\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HOME043.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HOME043.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HOME043-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HOME043-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hooded Merganser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; along with the male Hooded Merganser fanning its wings after preening. Towards the end of the day,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3437\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3437\" alt=\"Bald Eagle\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BAEA148.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BAEA148.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BAEA148-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BAEA148-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bald Eagle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; this Bald Eagle spent some time in the trees across from the tower providing an opportunity for some\u00a0photos. The nice thing when they perch here and you are shooting from the top of the tower is the better angle, almost eye level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised by the number of visitors for a Friday when I arrived at Reifel, but it was a nice day. The breeze was on the cool side, but it was petering out. Unfortunately it was fairly quiet on the birding front. I did find and spend some time with some Hooded Mergansers on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3433\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hooded Merganser &#038; Eagle&#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":[130,73],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-bald-eagle","tag-hooded-merganser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","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=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3438,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}