{"id":4807,"date":"2017-05-08T21:01:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T04:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2017-05-14T01:16:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T08:16:09","slug":"wood-duck-cackling-goose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4807","title":{"rendered":"Wood Duck + Cackling Goose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reifel<\/a> the Wood Ducks seemed particularly busy. While you would think it would be getting close to the time to see some ducklings,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4804\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4804\" alt=\"Wood Duck\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WODU066.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WODU066.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WODU066-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WODU066-300x240.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-4804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Duck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; they were active in the branches. This pair was in close proximity to a nesting box while providing this nice interaction.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4808\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4808\" alt=\"Wood Duck\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WODU067.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WODU067.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WODU067-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WODU067-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Duck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then this male Wood Duck also struck a nice pose while in the trees.<\/p>\n<p>Odd man out today,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4805\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4805\" alt=\"Cackling Goose\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CACG011.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CACG011.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CACG011-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CACG011-300x240.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-4805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cackling Goose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; was this lone Cackling Goose on the trail by the centre display ponds.<\/p>\n<p>On the way home along Westham Island Road,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4806\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4806\" alt=\"Brewer's Blackbird\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BRBL006.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BRBL006.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BRBL006-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BRBL006-300x240.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-4806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brewer&#8217;s Blackbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; I stopped briefly for this Brewer&#8217;s Blackbird. This is a fairly reliable location to see them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon at Reifel the Wood Ducks seemed particularly busy. While you would think it would be getting close to the time to see some ducklings, &#8230; they were active in the branches. This pair was in close proximity to a nesting box while providing this nice interaction. Then this male Wood Duck also struck &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4807\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wood Duck + Cackling Goose&#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":[9,11,136],"tags":[163,237,96],"class_list":["post-4807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","category-westham-island","tag-brewers-blackbird","tag-cackling-goose","tag-wood-duck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807","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=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4809,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions\/4809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}