{"id":4950,"date":"2017-11-23T20:41:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T04:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2017-11-25T20:43:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T04:43:06","slug":"short-eared-snowy-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4950","title":{"rendered":"Short-eared + Snowy Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a nice sunny afternoon when I started my walk at Boundary Bay. As with my last visit here, I was going to look for wintering sparrows. Not long after starting,<\/p>\n

\"Northern
Northern Harrier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… this male Northern Harrier did a close fly by. On the sparrow front as I progressed east along the dyke I was only finding the usual suspects.<\/p>\n

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

Like this White-crowned Sparrow,<\/p>\n

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

… and Song Sparrow. With clouds moving in and the sun starting to set, it was time to start heading back. While adjacent to the golf course,<\/p>\n

\"Short-eared
Short-eared Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… I came across this Short-eared Owl that had stopped to rest on a fence post. As it continued  getting darker,<\/p>\n

\"Snowy
Snowy Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… I was pleasantly surprised to see this Snowy Owl roosting out in the marsh. One has been seen here off and on for a couple of weeks now. The first one I saw this winter was also about two weeks ago at Reifel way out in the west marsh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a nice sunny afternoon when I started my walk at Boundary Bay. As with my last visit here, I was going to look for wintering sparrows. Not long after starting, … this male Northern Harrier did a close fly by. On the sparrow front as I progressed east along the dyke I was … Continue reading “Short-eared + Snowy Owl”<\/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":[9,10],"tags":[121,8,5,17,34],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-northern-harrier","tag-short-eared-owl","tag-snowy-owl","tag-song-sparrow","tag-white-crowned-sparrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950","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=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4952,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/4952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}