{"id":4875,"date":"2017-10-08T21:20:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T04:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2017-10-09T00:39:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T07:39:41","slug":"northern-shrike-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4875","title":{"rendered":"Northern Shrike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great weather so far for the Thanksgiving weekend and a good crowd at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reifel<\/a> this afternoon. The only thing of note from the morning walk were a couple of Northern Shrike along the west dyke. I started my afternoon off along the outside to check for shorebirds and the shrikes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4872\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4872\" alt=\"Killdeer\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KILL051.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KILL051.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KILL051-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KILL051-300x240.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-4872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Killdeer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This lone Killdeer was the only shorebird that was cooperating for photos.<\/p>\n<p>Then about half way along the west dyke I could hear a couple of Northern Shrike. They were creating quite the racket,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4873\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4873\" alt=\"Northern Shrike\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NSHR061.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NSHR061.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NSHR061-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NSHR061-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Shrike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; with one eventually coming to roost in a tree over the trail. While I heard one the other week in Boundary Bay, this is the first Northern Shrike I have seen and photographed this fall.<\/p>\n<p>To finish the afternoon off,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4874\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4874\" alt=\"Pheasant\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Pheasant001.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Pheasant001.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Pheasant001-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Pheasant001-300x240.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-4874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pheasant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; this Pheasant made a brief appearance at the side of the trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great weather so far for the Thanksgiving weekend and a good crowd at Reifel this afternoon. The only thing of note from the morning walk were a couple of Northern Shrike along the west dyke. I started my afternoon off along the outside to check for shorebirds and the shrikes. This lone Killdeer was the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4875\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Northern Shrike&#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":[62,6,245],"class_list":["post-4875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-killdeer","tag-northern-shrike","tag-pheasant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875","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=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4876,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions\/4876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}