{"id":3682,"date":"2014-10-26T23:44:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T06:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2014-10-26T23:44:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T06:44:24","slug":"horned-grebe-ruddy-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3682","title":{"rendered":"Horned Grebe &#038; Ruddy Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was clearing up and cool when I headed out to <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> to help out on the trails this afternoon. Just prior to getting there, parked cars were lining\u00a0both sides of the street watching the Snow Geese in the fields. There was still a good crowd when I arrived at the parking lot. Potential highlight for the day was a Northern Saw-whet Owl along the centre dyke trail. On checking that out first, it had moved on not long before I got there. Other highlights were some Horned Grebe,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3683\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3683\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HOGR016.jpg\" alt=\"Horned Grebe\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HOGR016.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HOGR016-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HOGR016-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HOGR016-375x300.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-3683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horned Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; which were resting when I first located them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3684\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3684\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HOGR020.jpg\" alt=\"Horned Grebe\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HOGR020.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HOGR020-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HOGR020-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HOGR020-375x300.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-3684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horned Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They did get busy eventually and started diving for fish,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3685\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3685\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3685\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HOGR021.jpg\" alt=\"Horned Grebe\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HOGR021.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HOGR021-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HOGR021-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HOGR021-375x300.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-3685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horned Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; along with striking a few nice poses. The other highlight,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3686\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3686\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/RUDU007.jpg\" alt=\"Ruddy Duck\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/RUDU007.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/RUDU007-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/RUDU007-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/RUDU007-375x300.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-3686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruddy Duck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; was a Ruddy Duck. It was in the same area as the Grebe,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3687\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3687\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/RUDU008.jpg\" alt=\"Ruddy Duck\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/RUDU008.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/RUDU008-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/RUDU008-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/RUDU008-375x300.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-3687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruddy Duck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; and was hanging out with them when first spotted the other day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was clearing up and cool when I headed out to Reifel to help out on the trails this afternoon. Just prior to getting there, parked cars were lining\u00a0both sides of the street watching the Snow Geese in the fields. There was still a good crowd when I arrived at the parking lot. Potential highlight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3682\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Horned Grebe &#038; Ruddy Duck&#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":[25,220],"class_list":["post-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-horned-grebe","tag-ruddy-duck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","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=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3688,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}