{"id":3551,"date":"2014-06-22T21:04:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T04:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2014-06-22T21:04:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T04:04:57","slug":"owl-swallows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3551","title":{"rendered":"Owl &#038; Swallows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely summer afternoon and a moderate crowd at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> this afternoon when I showed up to help out on the trails. While fairly quiet on the birding front, there have been a couple of Mourning Doves and Eastern Kingbirds for a change of pace of late. The highlight for most though,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3552\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3552\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GHOW061.jpg\" alt=\"Great Horned Owl\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GHOW061.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GHOW061-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GHOW061-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Horned Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; was this Great Horned Owl along the east dyke trail. I spent a good part of the afternoon with the camera set up on it providing this view to visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile back at the Tree Swallow nest,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3553\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3553\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TRES094.jpg\" alt=\"Tree Swallow Nest\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TRES094.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TRES094-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TRES094-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TRES094-375x300.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-3553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tree Swallow Nest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; I continue\u00a0trying to\u00a0get shots of the adults arriving with food for the chicks. I managed to see three juveniles in the nest\u00a0at once today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely summer afternoon and a moderate crowd at Reifel this afternoon when I showed up to help out on the trails. While fairly quiet on the birding front, there have been a couple of Mourning Doves and Eastern Kingbirds for a change of pace of late. The highlight for most though, &#8230; was this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3551\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Owl &#038; Swallows&#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":[77,99],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-great-horned-owl","tag-tree-swallow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","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=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3554,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}