{"id":3522,"date":"2014-03-30T22:19:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T05:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2014-03-30T22:19:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T05:19:09","slug":"white-fronted-pied-billed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3522","title":{"rendered":"White-fronted & Pied-billed"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the morning was not great, it did perk up this afternoon and I made my way out to Reifel<\/a> to help out on the trails. Along the way River Rd. West was blocked in both directions because of a fire requiring a detour through the local farm roads. This could throw a few potential visitors unfamiliar with the local roads for a loop. Compared to last Sunday, there were not many vehicles in the lot when I arrived. One recent sighting of interest at the sanctuary was a Townsend’s Solitaire along the centre dyke. I mad a few passes along there throughout the day but had no luck locating it. Another spring arrival\u00a0were some Yellow-rumped Warblers and I marvelled at all the singing Ruby-crowned Kinglets. While checking the\u00a0west dyke\u00a0another call caught my attention,<\/p>\n

\"Greater
Greater White-fronted Goose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… that of the\u00a0Greater White-fronted Goose.<\/p>\n

\"Greater
Greater White-fronted Goose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three of them flew into the outer ponds, but only stayed a short while before flying off. Meanwhile back on the inner ponds a pair of Pied-billed Grebe had been entertaining visitors throughout the day.<\/p>\n

\"Pied-billed
Pied-billed Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I managed this shot of one\u00a0while fishing prior to calling it a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the morning was not great, it did perk up this afternoon and I made my way out to Reifel to help out on the trails. Along the way River Rd. West was blocked in both directions because of a fire requiring a detour through the local farm roads. This could throw a few potential … Continue reading “White-fronted & Pied-billed”<\/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":[128,69],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-greater-white-fronted-goose","tag-pied-billed-grebe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","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=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}