{"id":3862,"date":"2015-10-04T19:58:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T03:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2015-10-16T22:36:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:36:13","slug":"great-egret-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3862","title":{"rendered":"Great Egret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful fall day and a good crowd out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\">Reifel<\/a> this afternoon. Highlights from the morning walk were Ruddy Duck, Ring-necked Duck, Pied-billed Grebe and Stilt Sandpiper. The Ruddy Duck in Fuller&#8217;s Slough was too far off for photos. I then made my way to the outer ponds, but was unable to relocate the Stilt Sandpiper. While I managed to see a few more Grebe, there was not much else going on. That was until later in the afternoon in the house pond at the foot of the south dyke trail,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3863\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3863\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG005.jpg\" alt=\"Great Egret\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG005.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG005-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG005-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG005-375x300.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-3863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; where the Great Egret had shown up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3864\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3864\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG009.jpg\" alt=\"Great Egret\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG009.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG009-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG009-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG009-375x300.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-3864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today&#8217;s weather conditions were much better than last months,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3871\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3871\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3871\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG008.jpg\" alt=\"Great Egret\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG008.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG008-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG008-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG008-375x300.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-3871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;\u00a0with the location and proximity of the bird\u00a0being far superior as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3866\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3866\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG011.jpg\" alt=\"Great Egret\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG011.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG011-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG011-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GREG011-375x300.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-3866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, needless to say I was a much happier camper with this opportunity and these\u00a0photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful fall day and a good crowd out at Reifel this afternoon. Highlights from the morning walk were Ruddy Duck, Ring-necked Duck, Pied-billed Grebe and Stilt Sandpiper. The Ruddy Duck in Fuller&#8217;s Slough was too far off for photos. I then made my way to the outer ponds, but was unable to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great Egret&#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":[225],"class_list":["post-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-great-egret"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862","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=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}