{"id":3761,"date":"2015-01-22T21:54:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T05:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2015-01-24T22:17:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T06:17:17","slug":"swamp-harriss-sparrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3761","title":{"rendered":"Swamp &#038; Harris&#8217;s Sparrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being an\u00a0overcast and drizzly day I made my way out to <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> this afternoon. While no longer a nemesis bird, I would still like to get some pictures of the Swamp Sparrow again this year. It did not take too long after arriving in the tower area to get my first fleeting glimpse, but then nothing. I thought to myself again\u00a0that would probably be\u00a0it,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3762\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3762\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3762\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SWSP009.jpg\" alt=\"Swamp Sparrow\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SWSP009.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SWSP009-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SWSP009-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swamp Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; but some time later one of the Swamp Sparrows popped up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3763\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3763\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3763\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SWSP010.jpg\" alt=\"Swamp Sparrow\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SWSP010.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SWSP010-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SWSP010-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swamp Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was feeding on the seeds atop the tall grass.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3764\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3764\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3764\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SWSP011.jpg\" alt=\"Swamp Sparrow\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SWSP011.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SWSP011-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SWSP011-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swamp Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was some distance away and the light was poor, but it was good to finally get some good looks and pictures of it for this winter. Bonus bird of the day,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3765\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3765\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/HASP016.jpg\" alt=\"Harris's Sparrow\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/HASP016.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/HASP016-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/HASP016-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/HASP016-375x300.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-3765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harris&#8217;s Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; was the Harris&#8217;s Sparrow on the way out with the last of the light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being an\u00a0overcast and drizzly day I made my way out to Reifel this afternoon. While no longer a nemesis bird, I would still like to get some pictures of the Swamp Sparrow again this year. It did not take too long after arriving in the tower area to get my first fleeting glimpse, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3761\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swamp &#038; Harris&#8217;s Sparrows&#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":[221,207],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-harriss-sparrow","tag-swamp-sparrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","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=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3766,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions\/3766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}