{"id":4766,"date":"2017-02-26T21:24:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T05:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2017-02-26T23:32:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T07:32:22","slug":"pied-billed-grebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4766","title":{"rendered":"Pied-billed Grebe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful afternoon, albeit a little windy which kept it on the cooler side. There was a half decent crowd at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a>, but it was fairly quiet on the birding front. Avoiding the wind I stuck to the inside trails,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4763\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4763\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4763\" alt=\"Pied-billed Grebe\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR051.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR051.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR051-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR051-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pied-billed Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; where the highlight of the afternoon was this Pied-billed Grebe.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4764\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4764\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4764\" alt=\"Pied-billed Grebe\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR052.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR052.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR052-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR052-300x240.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-4764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pied-billed Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was busy foraging and catching fish at first,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4765\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4765\" alt=\"Pied-billed Grebe\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR053.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR053.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR053-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR053-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pied-billed Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; then it took some time to just float around while preening.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4770\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4770\" alt=\"Pied-billed Grebe\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR054.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR054.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR054-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PBGR054-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pied-billed Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Always fun to spend some time with a Pied-billed Grebe when they are fairly close as this one was.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful afternoon, albeit a little windy which kept it on the cooler side. There was a half decent crowd at Reifel, but it was fairly quiet on the birding front. Avoiding the wind I stuck to the inside trails, &#8230; where the highlight of the afternoon was this Pied-billed Grebe. It was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4766\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pied-billed Grebe&#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":[69],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-pied-billed-grebe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","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=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4771,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions\/4771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}