{"id":3517,"date":"2014-03-26T17:59:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T00:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2014-03-26T17:59:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T00:59:18","slug":"mountain-bluebird-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3517","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Bluebird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another early spring event I look forward to is the Mountain Bluebird. Each year at this time during their migration they can usually be seen in Boundary Bay Regional Park in Tsawwassen. Having already been sighted elsewhere in the Lower Mainland recently, I made my way down there this afternoon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3518\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3518\" alt=\"Mountain Bluebird\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MOBL066.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MOBL066.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MOBL066-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MOBL066-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MOBL066-375x300.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-3518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain Bluebird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Only a few minutes after arriving I spotted\u00a0my target bird.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3519\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3519\" alt=\"Mountain Bluebird\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MOBL069.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MOBL069.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MOBL069-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MOBL069-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MOBL069-375x300.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-3519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain Bluebird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There were two male Mountain Bluebirds actively hunting for insects along the beach.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3520\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3520\" alt=\"Mountain Bluebird\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MOBL071.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MOBL071.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MOBL071-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MOBL071-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MOBL071-375x300.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-3520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain Bluebird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While numbers will vary each year, these were the only two I saw today. Still, not bad for the first try of this year for these beauties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another early spring event I look forward to is the Mountain Bluebird. Each year at this time during their migration they can usually be seen in Boundary Bay Regional Park in Tsawwassen. Having already been sighted elsewhere in the Lower Mainland recently, I made my way down there this afternoon. Only a few minutes after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3517\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mountain Bluebird&#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":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","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=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}