{"id":4960,"date":"2017-12-13T18:57:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T02:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2017-12-13T18:57:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T02:57:41","slug":"summer-tanager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4960","title":{"rendered":"Summer Tanager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I decided to head in to Vancouver for the Summer Tanager first reported on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bcbirdalert.blogspot.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Columbia Rare Bird Alert<\/a> blog on December 09. It did not take long to locate the bird along the Arbutus Greenway.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4956\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4956\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4956\" alt=\"Summer Tanager\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA002.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA002.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA002-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA002-300x240.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-4956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summer Tanager<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While it was initially challenging getting a clear shot,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4957\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4957\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4957\" alt=\"Summer Tanager\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA005.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA005.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA005-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA005-300x240.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-4957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summer Tanager<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; the opportunities improved with time and as it moved among the trees hawking for insects. It was also visiting suet feeders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4958\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4958\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4958\" alt=\"Summer Tanager\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA007.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA007.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA007-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA007-300x240.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-4958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summer Tanager<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This immature male Summer Tanager is the sixth record for British Columbia and the first for the Vancouver area. Given the time of year this bird should be in Mexico, Central or South America.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4959\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4959\" alt=\"Summer Tanager\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA008.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA008.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA008-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SUTA008-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summer Tanager<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A productive outing and a new addition to my life photo list.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I decided to head in to Vancouver for the Summer Tanager first reported on the British Columbia Rare Bird Alert blog on December 09. It did not take long to locate the bird along the Arbutus Greenway. While it was initially challenging getting a clear shot, &#8230; the opportunities improved with time and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4960\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summer Tanager&#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":[9,246],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-vancouver","tag-summer-tanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","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=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4963,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions\/4963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}