{"id":4973,"date":"2017-12-24T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2017-12-31T23:09:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T07:09:09","slug":"christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4973","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Eve this year fell on a Sunday and my usual afternoon to volunteer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reifel<\/a>. There was not much of a crowd and it was fairly quiet on the birding front as well. Fortunately some of the regulars were cooperating.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4965\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4965\" alt=\"House Finch\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HOFI019.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HOFI019.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HOFI019-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HOFI019-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Finch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Such as this House Finch,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4966\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4966\" alt=\"Purple Finch\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/PUFI018.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/PUFI018.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/PUFI018-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/PUFI018-300x240.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-4966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purple Finch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; and Purple Finch. Later in the day while trying to track down a woodpecker I could hear drumming on a tree,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4967\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4967\" alt=\"Brown Creeper\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BRCR027.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BRCR027.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BRCR027-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BRCR027-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown Creeper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; this Brown Creeper made a brief appearance next to me.&nbsp;And to finish the day of was the source of the drumming,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4968\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4968\" alt=\"Downy Woodpecker\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DOWO048.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DOWO048.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DOWO048-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DOWO048-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downy Woodpecker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; a Downy Woodpecker.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Eve this year fell on a Sunday and my usual afternoon to volunteer at Reifel. There was not much of a crowd and it was fairly quiet on the birding front as well. Fortunately some of the regulars were cooperating. Such as this House Finch, &#8230; and Purple Finch. Later in the day while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4973\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas Eve&#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":[50,18,209,109],"class_list":["post-4973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-brown-creeper","tag-downy-woodpecker","tag-house-finch","tag-purple-finch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973","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=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4980,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}