{"id":4593,"date":"2016-09-11T19:31:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T02:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4593"},"modified":"2016-09-12T12:40:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T19:40:46","slug":"great-horned-dowitchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4593","title":{"rendered":"Great Horned + Dowitchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a pleasant afternoon and a half decent crowd at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> when I arrived to help out on the trails today. A favourite visitors are always asking about is owls,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4589\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4589\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4589\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GHOW065.jpg\" alt=\"Great Horned Owl\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GHOW065.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GHOW065-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GHOW065-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Horned Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; and much to their delight one of the Great Horned Owls was in a decent spot for viewing today. While the adults and two juveniles this year have been viewable from a distance earlier in the year, this was probably the closest one has been in a while.<\/p>\n<p>With not much else happening,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4590\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4590\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dowitcher001.jpg\" alt=\"Dowitcher\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dowitcher001.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dowitcher001-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dowitcher001-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dowitcher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; I decided to spend\u00a0some time with the Dowitchers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4591\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4591\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dowitcher002.jpg\" alt=\"Dowitcher\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dowitcher002.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dowitcher002-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dowitcher002-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dowitcher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They were in the southwest field along with some Yellowlegs,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4592\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4592\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dowitcher004.jpg\" alt=\"Dowitcher\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dowitcher004.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dowitcher004-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dowitcher004-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dowitcher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; with a few taking advantage of the great day for a little\u00a0bathing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a pleasant afternoon and a half decent crowd at Reifel when I arrived to help out on the trails today. A favourite visitors are always asking about is owls, &#8230; and much to their delight one of the Great Horned Owls was in a decent spot for viewing today. While the adults and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4593\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great Horned + Dowitchers&#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":[47,77],"class_list":["post-4593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-dowitcher","tag-great-horned-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593","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=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4595,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions\/4595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}