{"id":473,"date":"2011-05-06T20:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T03:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=473"},"modified":"2011-12-06T00:54:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T08:54:08","slug":"songbirds-shorebirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Songbirds & Shorebirds"},"content":{"rendered":"

After some volunteer work at Reifel<\/a> there was still time for a walk. The weather was not the greatest with overcast skies and intermittent showers. I started by watching a few groups of sparrows, always on the lookout for something out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n

\"White-crowned
White-crowned Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But it was just the regulars present today.<\/p>\n

\"House
House Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then there is the bane of the songbird world.<\/p>\n

\"Brown-headed
Brown-headed Cowbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Brown-headed Cowbird is a brood parasite. They make no nest of their own with the female laying her eggs in the nests of other species. These other birds will then raise the young along with their own.<\/p>\n

Some shorebirds have been frequenting the inner ponds the last few days.<\/p>\n

\"Lesser
Lesser Yellowlegs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This Lesser Yellowlegs foraging and catching what looks like a small invertebrate.<\/p>\n

\"Least
Least Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Along with some Least Sandpipers doing the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After some volunteer work at Reifel there was still time for a walk. The weather was not the greatest with overcast skies and intermittent showers. I started by watching a few groups of sparrows, always on the lookout for something out of the ordinary. But it was just the regulars present today. Then there is … Continue reading “Songbirds & Shorebirds”<\/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":[115,114,45,48,34],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-brown-headed-cowbird","tag-house-sparrow","tag-least-sandpiper","tag-lesser-yellowlegs","tag-white-crowned-sparrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","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=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}