{"id":4486,"date":"2016-08-18T21:28:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T04:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2016-08-18T21:33:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T04:33:21","slug":"brown-creeper-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4486","title":{"rendered":"Brown Creeper Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in May of this year I had an opportunity to observe a Brown Creeper nest. It was located along the east dyke trail at Reifel<\/a> in a vulnerable spot, so its\u00a0existence was not common knowledge. The nest was built\u00a0behind a large piece of loose bark. While there was some routine activity during the incubation period,\u00a0it definitely picked up once the chicks hatched.<\/p>\n

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Brown Creeper Nest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here you can see one of the adults arriving with food and looking into the nest making its presence known.<\/p>\n

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Brown Creeper Nest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then the other exiting the nesting cavity,<\/p>\n

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Brown Creeper Nest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… and heading up the tree before flying off.<\/p>\n

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Brown Creeper Nest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then the\u00a0arriving adult,<\/p>\n

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Brown Creeper Nest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… enters the nest with the food delivery for the chicks.<\/p>\n

Keeping track of the days I had hoped to be around to catch the fledglings leaving the nest. Unfortunately I missed that moment,<\/p>\n

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Brown Creeper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… but did catch this shot of one of the adults at the nesting tree after the young had left. It was a great few weeks watching all of this unfold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in May of this year I had an opportunity to observe a Brown Creeper nest. It was located along the east dyke trail at Reifel in a vulnerable spot, so its\u00a0existence was not common knowledge. The nest was built\u00a0behind a large piece of loose bark. While there was some routine activity during the incubation … Continue reading “Brown Creeper Nest”<\/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":[232],"class_list":["post-4486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-brown-creeper-nest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486","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=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4488,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions\/4488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}