{"id":3439,"date":"2014-01-04T18:51:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T02:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2014-01-05T12:05:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:05:29","slug":"western-meadowlark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3439","title":{"rendered":"Western Meadowlark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another sunny day and I made my way out to Brunswick Point this afternoon. As there was little wind, the river would be calm and smooth. While this was the case for the river when I arrived, I was disappointed to see no activity\u00a0out there at all. Not long into my walk though there was a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3440\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3440\" alt=\"Western Meadowlark\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WEME006.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WEME006.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WEME006-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WEME006-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Western Meadowlark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some Western Meadowlarks flew into the trees along the trail. The lighting was far from ideal, but I did manage this shot. There was over a dozen Meadowlarks moving between the farm fields, marsh and trees along the dyke.<\/p>\n<p>Further along the trail I located a Northern Shrike, and later in the afternoon a half dozen Short-eared Owls got active over the marsh along with the usual Northern Harriers. Unfortunately I was not able to get any decent shots of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another sunny day and I made my way out to Brunswick Point this afternoon. As there was little wind, the river would be calm and smooth. While this was the case for the river when I arrived, I was disappointed to see no activity\u00a0out there at all. Not long into my walk though there was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Western Meadowlark&#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":[9,12],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-brunswick-point","tag-western-meadowlark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439","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=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3441,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions\/3441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}