{"id":4819,"date":"2017-05-15T17:26:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T00:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2017-05-15T17:28:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T00:28:41","slug":"sandhill-crane-colt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4819","title":{"rendered":"Sandhill Crane Colt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reifel<\/a> this morning helping out at the Sandhill Crane nesting area. The lone colt hatched a week ago today. It was overcast with a light drizzle and only one other photographer in addition to myself and another volunteer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4814\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4814\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4814\" alt=\"Sandhill Crane\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR129b.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR129b.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR129b-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR129b-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-4814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandhill Crane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Initially they were keeping their distance,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4815\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4815\" alt=\"Sandhill Crane\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR130.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR130.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR130-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR130-300x240.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-4815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandhill Crane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; but when I came back later they were closer to the benches and a few other people were now present.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4816\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4816\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4816\" alt=\"Sandhill Crane\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR131.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR131.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR131-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR131-300x240.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-4816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandhill Crane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We were treated to some good opportunities for close up shots &#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4817\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4817\" alt=\"Sandhill Crane\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR132.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR132.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR132-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR132-300x240.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-4817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandhill Crane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; of the colt interacting with and being fed by the adult Sandhill Cranes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4818\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4818\" alt=\"Sandhill Crane\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR136.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR136.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR136-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SACR136-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandhill Crane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The colt also provided chances for solo portraits while ambling through the grass. So far, it appears healthy and to be doing well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at Reifel this morning helping out at the Sandhill Crane nesting area. The lone colt hatched a week ago today. It was overcast with a light drizzle and only one other photographer in addition to myself and another volunteer. Initially they were keeping their distance, &#8230; but when I came back later they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4819\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sandhill Crane Colt&#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":[37],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-sandhill-crane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","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=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4822,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}