{"id":3840,"date":"2015-09-13T22:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2015-09-13T22:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T06:00:48","slug":"sora-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3840","title":{"rendered":"Sora & Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"

A breezy, but pleasant afternoon at\u00a0Reifel<\/a>\u00a0today. A recent highlight was a\u00a0 White-faced Ibis seen on Friday. It was not reported until Saturday and has not been seen since. The Great Egret continues to visit the sanctuary, just not when I am there with my camera. It was fairly quiet on the birding front with the days entertainment happening around the tower.<\/p>\n

\"Sora\"
Sora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A couple of Sora were showing well again today.<\/p>\n

\"Sora\"
Sora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First up was this adult bird.<\/p>\n

\"Virginia
Virginia Rail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not wanting to be outdone,<\/p>\n

\"Virginia
Virginia Rail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… this Virginia Rail also started foraging in view along the edge of the reeds.<\/p>\n

\"Sora\"
Sora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This juvenile Sora\u00a0was also\u00a0active in the area\u00a0with the three occasionally chasing each around. The Sora and Rail were also interacting with the Red-winged Blackbirds,<\/p>\n

\"Red-winged
Red-winged Blackbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… which were also busy in the reeds and water. Fun times at the tower today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A breezy, but pleasant afternoon at\u00a0Reifel\u00a0today. A recent highlight was a\u00a0 White-faced Ibis seen on Friday. It was not reported until Saturday and has not been seen since. The Great Egret continues to visit the sanctuary, just not when I am there with my camera. It was fairly quiet on the birding front with the … Continue reading “Sora & Rail”<\/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":[19,178,202],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-red-winged-blackbird","tag-sora","tag-virginia-rail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","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=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3849,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions\/3849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}