{"id":3507,"date":"2014-03-12T22:30:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T06:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2014-03-12T23:39:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T07:39:16","slug":"northern-shrike-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3507","title":{"rendered":"Northern Shrike"},"content":{"rendered":"

One bird that I have not had much success with this winter is the Northern Shrike. They have been around in various spots and I have seen them, just no photos to speak of. Fortunately that would change\u00a0this afternoon. I was out enjoying another beautiful afternoon walking around\u00a0Brunswick Point. At the start of the trail there were some Common Goldeneye and Western Grebe in the river. Once out on the point both Northern Harrier and Short-eared Owls were active over the marsh. On getting closer to the far side a familiar streak of grey, black and white flew into a stand of trees just off the dyke. I made my way slowly along the trail that parallels the dyke.<\/p>\n

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Northern Shrike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was not long before I came across the\u00a0Northern Shrike\u00a0perching atop a tree.<\/p>\n

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Northern Shrike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This has been a good spot for them in the past and this bird did not disappoint.<\/p>\n

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Northern Shrike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even more delightful was the fact it was calling quite a bit while moving between the trees. Perhaps it could sense spring was in the air. It was good to finally get some shots before they move on. On my way back out a group of Red-breasted Mergansers had also arrived on the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One bird that I have not had much success with this winter is the Northern Shrike. They have been around in various spots and I have seen them, just no photos to speak of. Fortunately that would change\u00a0this afternoon. I was out enjoying another beautiful afternoon walking around\u00a0Brunswick Point. At the start of the trail … Continue reading “Northern Shrike”<\/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":[6],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-brunswick-point","tag-northern-shrike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","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=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3511,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions\/3511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}