{"id":5043,"date":"2018-02-11T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2018-02-12T02:21:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T10:21:34","slug":"american-bittern-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5043","title":{"rendered":"American Bittern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another beautiful day, albeit on the cool side, and a large turnout at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reifel<\/a> for the Family Day long weekend. When there is this may visitors it&#8217;s nice if there is an owl around I can set up on for them. Such was not the case this afternoon as I could not locate any. While I did get a few people asking, most were just out enjoying the day.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the day was along the outside west dyke,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5039\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5039\" alt=\"American Bittern\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AMBI095.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AMBI095.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AMBI095-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AMBI095-300x240.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-5039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; where an American Bittern was active in a patch of flattened cattails. So I set up there for awhile to show people.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5040\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5040\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5040\" alt=\"American Bittern\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AMBI096.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AMBI096.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AMBI096-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AMBI096-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For some it was the first time they had seen one. Always a good day when one of these usually secretive birds provides such a good viewing opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another beautiful day, albeit on the cool side, and a large turnout at Reifel for the Family Day long weekend. When there is this may visitors it&#8217;s nice if there is an owl around I can set up on for them. Such was not the case this afternoon as I could not locate any. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5043\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Bittern&#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":[124],"class_list":["post-5043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-american-bittern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043","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=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5044,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions\/5044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}