{"id":4977,"date":"2017-12-31T23:06:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T07:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2018-01-02T21:26:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T05:26:03","slug":"new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4977","title":{"rendered":"New Years Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Years Eve also found me volunteering at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reifel<\/a>. The sun was out and there was a good crowd. Today turned out to be raptor day at the tower.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4969\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4969\" alt=\"Bald Eagle\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BAEA177.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BAEA177.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BAEA177-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BAEA177-300x240.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-4969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bald Eagle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From the top of the tower this Bald Eagle was roosting nicely in an evergreen. While watching it,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4970\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4970\" alt=\"Red-tailed Hawk\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/RTHA053.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/RTHA053.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/RTHA053-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/RTHA053-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red-tailed Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; this Red-tailed Hawk landed in an adjacent tree. Not often you end up shooting down on a hawk like this. While continuing to watch the eagle,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4971\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4971\" alt=\"Northern Harrier\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NOHA120.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NOHA120.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NOHA120-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NOHA120-300x240.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-4971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Harrier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; this Northern Harrier did a fly by. To provide a nice end to this episode,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4972\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4972\" alt=\"Bald Eagle\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BAEA178.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BAEA178.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BAEA178-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BAEA178-300x240.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-4972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bald Eagle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; the Bald Eagle eventually took off passing close by the tower as it headed out to the marsh.&nbsp;On my way back as the sun was starting to go down,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4982\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4982\" alt=\"Moonrise\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FullMoon018.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FullMoon018.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FullMoon018-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FullMoon018-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moonrise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;the moon was rising.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Years Eve also found me volunteering at Reifel. The sun was out and there was a good crowd. Today turned out to be raptor day at the tower. From the top of the tower this Bald Eagle was roosting nicely in an evergreen. While watching it, &#8230; this Red-tailed Hawk landed in an adjacent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Years 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":[130,121,135],"class_list":["post-4977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-bald-eagle","tag-northern-harrier","tag-red-tailed-hawk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977","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=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4993,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions\/4993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}