{"id":4688,"date":"2016-12-08T19:10:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T03:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2016-12-08T19:10:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T03:10:20","slug":"bohemian-waxwing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4688","title":{"rendered":"Bohemian Waxwing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got a chance for a brief walk&nbsp;on this cold, but sunny afternoon. Headed out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a> and&nbsp;was surprised at being the only visitor there when I pulled into the parking lot. Three Red-breasted Sapsuckers had been seen earlier in the day so I started off down the east dyke trail in search of them. Unfortunately there&nbsp;was no sign of Sapsuckers,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4685\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4685\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4685\" alt=\"Northern Saw-whet Owl\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NSWO070.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NSWO070.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NSWO070-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NSWO070-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Saw-whet Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; but there was one Northern Saw-whet Owl sleeping&nbsp;away the day.<\/p>\n<p>Other visitors did eventually show up and one couple I met up with along the centre dyke trail had spotted a group of Bohemian Waxwing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4686\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4686\" alt=\"Bohemian Waxwing\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BOWA007.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BOWA007.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BOWA007-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BOWA007-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bohemian Waxwing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They had counted&nbsp;eight birds busy feeding on the crab apple.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4687\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4687\" alt=\"Bohemian Waxwing\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BOWA009.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BOWA009.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BOWA009-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BOWA009-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bohemian Waxwing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They were some distance away, but&nbsp;I was not going to complain as it has been awhile since I have seen\/photographed Bohemian Waxwing here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a chance for a brief walk&nbsp;on this cold, but sunny afternoon. Headed out to Reifel and&nbsp;was surprised at being the only visitor there when I pulled into the parking lot. Three Red-breasted Sapsuckers had been seen earlier in the day so I started off down the east dyke trail in search of them. Unfortunately &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4688\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bohemian Waxwing&#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":[241,14],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-bohemian-waxwing","tag-northern-saw-whet-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","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=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4689,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions\/4689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}