{"id":5031,"date":"2018-01-28T22:45:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T06:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5031"},"modified":"2018-01-29T00:17:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T08:17:29","slug":"northern-saw-whet-owl-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5031","title":{"rendered":"Northern Saw-whet Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it was a gloomy wet day and the lack of visitors at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reifel<\/a> reflected that when I arrived to help out this afternoon. As I started out down the east dyke trail, nobody else was around. Nobody people wise anyways,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5030\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5030\" alt=\"Northern Saw-whet Owl\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NSWO071.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NSWO071.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NSWO071-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NSWO071-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Saw-whet Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; but this Northern Saw-whet Owl was tucked away trying to stay dry. While I have seen a few this winter, none have been in good spots for being able to get photographs. Today&#8217;s Northern Saw-whet Owl was not much better as it was roosting behind several branches. Fortunately I had my 70-300 mm zoom today (to be able to keep the camera under my jacket). It was a little more flexible in getting an angle than the larger lens and tripod would have been.<\/p>\n<p>The other highlight along the east dyke trail was a Eurasion Wigeon in a large puddle along with some other ducks in a field on the Alaksen side. Did chat with a few of the hearty birders that did venture out and there was no other sightings of note. The only other excitement was at the end of the day when I almost got knee capped by a Cooper&#8217;s Hawk that blasted by in front of me as I approached the entrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it was a gloomy wet day and the lack of visitors at Reifel reflected that when I arrived to help out this afternoon. As I started out down the east dyke trail, nobody else was around. Nobody people wise anyways, &#8230; but this Northern Saw-whet Owl was tucked away trying to stay dry. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5031\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Northern Saw-whet Owl&#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":[14],"class_list":["post-5031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-northern-saw-whet-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031","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=5031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5032,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031\/revisions\/5032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}