{"id":5000,"date":"2018-01-07T20:35:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T04:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2018-01-07T20:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T04:38:24","slug":"common-redpoll-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5000","title":{"rendered":"Common Redpoll"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was only a handful of visitors when I arrived to help out at Reifel<\/a> this afternoon. Not surprising given the rain and wind. Highlight from the morning walk were some Common Redpoll seen along the inside grassy trail. I started off down the east dyke where a Great Horned Owl was at the northeast corner in one of its usual roosts. Along the centre dyke trail,<\/p>\n

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Barred Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… a Barred Owl was also in one of its regular spots in a birch tree. Then while  making my way back to the middle of the display ponds where all the trails converge (sometimes referred to as the triangle),<\/p>\n

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Common Redpoll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… I came across the large flock of Common Redpoll.<\/p>\n

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Common Redpoll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They were busy feeding on the catkins.<\/p>\n

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Common Redpoll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It has been a while since I have had a chance to photograph Common Redpoll. Despite the weather, it was the bright spot of my day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was only a handful of visitors when I arrived to help out at Reifel this afternoon. Not surprising given the rain and wind. Highlight from the morning walk were some Common Redpoll seen along the inside grassy trail. I started off down the east dyke where a Great Horned Owl was at the northeast … Continue reading “Common Redpoll”<\/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":[141,152],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-barred-owl","tag-common-redpoll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","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=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5004,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions\/5004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}