{"id":3442,"date":"2014-01-05T23:13:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T07:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2014-01-05T23:13:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T07:13:58","slug":"great-horned-owl-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3442","title":{"rendered":"Great Horned Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another sunny, but cool day. On arriving to help out at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> the lot was full and it looked like the Sunday crowds were back to normal. While still fairly quiet on the birding front, there were a couple of attractions for the visitors this afternoon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3445\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3445\" alt=\"Great Horned Owl\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GHOW058.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GHOW058.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GHOW058-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GHOW058-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Horned Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First up along the east dyke trail were the Great Horned Owls. The local pair were both roosting together in the same tree. Unfortunately there was no way to get them both in the shot. Further along was a Northern Saw-whet Owl. I did not take any photos as it was obstructed by branches, but everyone loves to see the owls and they were the highlight of the day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3444\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3444\" alt=\"Mallard\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MALL053.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MALL053.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MALL053-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MALL053-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MALL053-375x300.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-3444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Still on the cold side, the ponds still had some thin ice and were fairly empty except for the few thawed portions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another sunny, but cool day. On arriving to help out at Reifel the lot was full and it looked like the Sunday crowds were back to normal. While still fairly quiet on the birding front, there were a couple of attractions for the visitors this afternoon. First up along the east dyke trail were the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great Horned Owl&#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":[77,22],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-great-horned-owl","tag-mallard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","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=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}