{"id":4994,"date":"2018-01-02T21:54:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T05:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4994"},"modified":"2018-01-02T21:54:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T05:54:38","slug":"barn-short-eared-owls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4994","title":{"rendered":"Barn + Short-eared Owls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Headed out to Boundary Bay on a cool and overcast afternoon. On arriving there were several other photographers watching some Short-eared Owls close to 72 St. Still wanting to find some wintering sparrows I continued east beyond them, but did not get too far before this Short-eared Owl landed on a fence post beside me.<\/p>\n

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

While scanning the fields it started vocalizing.<\/p>\n

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

Then prepared to take flight again.<\/p>\n

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

Kind of hard to ignore them when they are providing opportunities like this.<\/p>\n

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

The flight shots were taken as they were hunting over the golf course. After this diversion I continued east and spotted some activity in a crabapple.<\/p>\n

\"Purple
Purple Finch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This Purple Finch was busy feasting on the berries. Further along while watching some sparrows,<\/p>\n

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

… I was pleasantly surprised when this Barn Owl flew in landing briefly.<\/p>\n

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

It then moved a short distance away to another stump while continuing to scan the marsh,<\/p>\n

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

… and then flew off over the tall grass on the north side of the dyke. The Barn Owl was a definite bonus for today’s walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Headed out to Boundary Bay on a cool and overcast afternoon. On arriving there were several other photographers watching some Short-eared Owls close to 72 St. Still wanting to find some wintering sparrows I continued east beyond them, but did not get too far before this Short-eared Owl landed on a fence post beside me. While … Continue reading “Barn + Short-eared Owls”<\/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":[194,109,8],"class_list":["post-4994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-barn-owl","tag-purple-finch","tag-short-eared-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994","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=4994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4995,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994\/revisions\/4995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}