{"id":3768,"date":"2015-02-08T22:58:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T06:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2015-02-09T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T08:00:11","slug":"great-gray-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3768","title":{"rendered":"Great Gray Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there was the odd sprinkle this morning, the rain held off for the most part today. I headed out to <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> earlier than normal to help out as a Great Gray Owl had been sited there yesterday afternoon. This is the sanctuaries first record for this type of owl. When I arrived it had been spotted first thing, but had flown off over the sanctuary and not relocated. The area it has been frequenting to hunt is\u00a0not\u00a0open to the public, but staff have been taking groups in to view the bird.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fairly busy Sunday with a decent number of visitors, so I spent\u00a0time on the trails showing some the Great Horned and Northern Saw-whet Owls along the east dyke trail. Later in the afternoon I was notified that the Great Gray Owl had returned. It has been several years since I last saw and photographed one.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3769\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3769\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3769\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GGOW013.jpg\" alt=\"Great Gray Owl\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GGOW013.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GGOW013-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GGOW013-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Gray Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While it was quite some distance off across the field, it did provide good views to the many that had shown up to see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there was the odd sprinkle this morning, the rain held off for the most part today. I headed out to Reifel earlier than normal to help out as a Great Gray Owl had been sited there yesterday afternoon. This is the sanctuaries first record for this type of owl. When I arrived it had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3768\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great Gray Owl&#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":[223],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-great-gray-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","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=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}