{"id":3452,"date":"2014-01-12T19:42:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T03:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2014-01-12T19:42:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T03:42:24","slug":"belted-kingfisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3452","title":{"rendered":"Belted Kingfisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least the rain let up when I arrived to help out at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> this afternoon. The poor weather of late no doubt was a factor in the low number of visitors today. It was just as quiet on the birding front as well. There was one Northern Saw-whet Owl tucked away along the east dyke trail. At the northeast corner,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3453\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3453\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3453\" alt=\"Spotted Towhee\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SPTO027.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SPTO027.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SPTO027-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SPTO027-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spotted Towhee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; I managed this shot of one of the regulars, a Spotted Towhee. At the end of the day I could hear a Kingfisher from the area of the gift shop pond. While they show up regularly here, they can be challenging to get a decent photo of. As luck would have it,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3454\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3454\" alt=\"Belted Kingfisher\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BEKI019.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BEKI019.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BEKI019-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BEKI019-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belted Kingfisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;\u00a0the Belted Kingfisher was actively fishing the pond when I arrived and I actually managed to get fairly close. Despite the fact it was getting dark, I managed a few shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least the rain let up when I arrived to help out at Reifel this afternoon. The poor weather of late no doubt was a factor in the low number of visitors today. It was just as quiet on the birding front as well. There was one Northern Saw-whet Owl tucked away along the east &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Belted Kingfisher&#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":[204,107],"class_list":["post-3452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-belted-kingfisher","tag-spotted-towhee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452","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=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3455,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}