{"id":3493,"date":"2014-02-08T21:22:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T05:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2014-02-08T21:22:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T05:22:54","slug":"wilsons-snipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3493","title":{"rendered":"Wilson’s Snipe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s outing was to Brunswick Point where there were several people and other birders\/photographers enjoying another beautiful, but cold afternoon. The usual Double-crested Cormorants were on the pilings and I could still hear Western Meadowlarks singing in the fields and marsh. The Northern Harriers were up, but no Short-eared Owls that I noticed. While watching the stand of trees\u00a0the Prairie Falcon frequents I got called a little further to the east by another birder. The surprise of the afternoon,<\/p>\n

\"Wilson's
Wilson’s Snipe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… was a Wilson’s Snipe taking a siesta in the sun while the Robins\u00a0wondered around it.<\/p>\n

\"Wilson's
Wilson’s Snipe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eventually it did get up and start foraging in the farm yard. While I have seen and photographed Wilson’s Snipe\u00a0before,<\/p>\n

\"Wilson's
Wilson’s Snipe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… this is the closest I have managed to be. The bird was quite cooperative as well, staying in the open the whole time I was there. Thanks for the heads up Doug. To top the day off, the Prairie Falcon did make an appearance in the trees on my way back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s outing was to Brunswick Point where there were several people and other birders\/photographers enjoying another beautiful, but cold afternoon. The usual Double-crested Cormorants were on the pilings and I could still hear Western Meadowlarks singing in the fields and marsh. The Northern Harriers were up, but no Short-eared Owls that I noticed. While watching … Continue reading “Wilson’s Snipe”<\/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":[208],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-brunswick-point","tag-wilsons-snipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","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=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3497,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}