{"id":3498,"date":"2014-02-09T21:41:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T05:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2014-02-09T21:41:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T05:41:16","slug":"sparrows-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3498","title":{"rendered":"Sparrows &#038; Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudy and cool this afternoon when helping out at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a>, but not a bad crowd given the conditions. The Great Horned and Northern Saw-whet Owls were noticeably absent along the east dyke trail.\u00a0In the northeast corner I checked out some of the regulars.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3499\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3499\" alt=\"Fox Sparrow\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/FOSP026.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/FOSP026.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/FOSP026-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/FOSP026-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Like this Fox Sparrow,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3500\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3500\" alt=\"Song Sparrow\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SOSP038.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SOSP038.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SOSP038-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SOSP038-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SOSP038-375x300.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-3500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Song Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; and the ever present Song Sparrow. A couple of\u00a0birds\u00a0entertaining the visitors this afternoon and providing good views,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3501\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3501\" alt=\"Virginia Rail\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/VIRA007.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/VIRA007.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/VIRA007-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/VIRA007-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/VIRA007-375x300.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-3501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Rail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; were\u00a0two Virginia Rails. This one captured on ice along the slough&#8217;s edge. Another highlight today were two Swamp Sparrows making brief appearances around the tower again. A few birders were delighted to see them, some for the first time. Unfortunately I did not manage any new photos of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudy and cool this afternoon when helping out at Reifel, but not a bad crowd given the conditions. The Great Horned and Northern Saw-whet Owls were noticeably absent along the east dyke trail.\u00a0In the northeast corner I checked out some of the regulars. Like this Fox Sparrow, &#8230; and the ever present Song Sparrow. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3498\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sparrows &#038; Rail&#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":[15,17,202],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-fox-sparrow","tag-song-sparrow","tag-virginia-rail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","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=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}