{"id":3756,"date":"2015-01-19T21:25:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T05:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2015-01-24T21:51:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T05:51:29","slug":"grebe-merganser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3756","title":{"rendered":"Grebe & Merganser"},"content":{"rendered":"

I headed out to Brunswick Point in the sunshine this afternoon. The goal today was Northern Shrike. It did not take too long before finding one hunting the marsh from the tree tops adjacent to the dyke. Unfortunately it was not in a good spot for photos. I made my way a little further along to a better location for photos and one they tend to frequent. While waiting,<\/p>\n

\"Short-eared
Short-eared Owl & Northern Harrier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… the\u00a0Short-eared Owl and Northern Harrier were active and harassing each as they often do. The Northern Shrike, alas, did not show up.<\/p>\n

Prior to starting my walk along the dyke I noticed\u00a0the usual cormorants along with Horned Grebe, Common Goldeneye and Red-breasted Merganser in the river.\u00a0With the sun starting to go down and\u00a0the water\u00a0calm I made my way back.<\/p>\n

\"Horned
Horned Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the Horned Grebe was\u00a0fishing in fairly close to the river bank.<\/p>\n

\"Red-breasted
Red-breasted Merganser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Red-breasted Merganser were a little further out but I did manage a shot. The Common Goldeneye had moved off to far. The mouth of the river at Canoe Pass can be a good spot to see some these sea ducks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I headed out to Brunswick Point in the sunshine this afternoon. The goal today was Northern Shrike. It did not take too long before finding one hunting the marsh from the tree tops adjacent to the dyke. Unfortunately it was not in a good spot for photos. I made my way a little further along … Continue reading “Grebe & Merganser”<\/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":[9,12,142],"tags":[25,121,143,8],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-brunswick-point","category-canoe-pass","tag-horned-grebe","tag-northern-harrier","tag-red-breasted-merganser","tag-short-eared-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756","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=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}