{"id":3477,"date":"2014-01-28T18:50:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T02:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2014-01-28T18:50:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T02:50:54","slug":"swamp-sparrow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3477","title":{"rendered":"Swamp Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally getting a photo of\u00a0a Swamp Sparrow earlier this month does not mean I now put it on the back burner. The photographer in me is always striving for a better shot. There a few spots locally where they continue to be seen and this afternoon I was back at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reiflel<\/a>.\u00a0Recently they have been frequenting the reeds right across from the tower. While watching from the base of the tower it was not long before I heard and then saw the Swamp Sparrows. There were two that I could see this afternoon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3478\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3478\" alt=\"Swamp Sparrow\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SWSP007.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SWSP007.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SWSP007-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SWSP007-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swamp Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While spending a lot of time foraging down low amongst the reeds,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3479\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3479\" alt=\"Swamp Sparrow\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SWSP008.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SWSP008.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SWSP008-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SWSP008-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swamp Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; they would occasionally pop up. When they did so, you just had to hope for an unobstructed view. I lucked out with these shots of one of the Swamp Sparrows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally getting a photo of\u00a0a Swamp Sparrow earlier this month does not mean I now put it on the back burner. The photographer in me is always striving for a better shot. There a few spots locally where they continue to be seen and this afternoon I was back at Reiflel.\u00a0Recently they have been frequenting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swamp 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":[9,11],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-swamp-sparrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","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=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3480,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/3480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}