{"id":5241,"date":"2018-09-30T21:59:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T04:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2018-10-01T03:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:02:44","slug":"greater-yellowlegs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5241","title":{"rendered":"Greater Yellowlegs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the rain there were not many cars in the lot when I arrived to help out at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reifel<\/a> this afternoon. It also put a little bit of a damper on birding and photography.<\/p>\n<p>As wandering some of the inside trails was proving uneventful, I did check the outer fields and ponds. Nothing out of the ordinary was noted with just dowitchers and yellowlegs.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of visitors likely contributed to the one highlight of the day. Being fairly quiet a few dowitchers and yellowlegs had made their way right in beside the base of the tower.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5240\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5240\" alt=\"Greater Yellowlegs\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GRYE044.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GRYE044.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GRYE044-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GRYE044-300x240.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-5240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greater Yellowlegs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This Greater Yellowlegs was very active catching Stickleback. I have seen them do this before in the ponds at the sanctuary, just never this close.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5242\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5242\" alt=\"Sandhill Crane\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SACR192.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SACR192.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SACR192-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SACR192-300x240.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-5242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandhill Crane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the way out this years surviving Sandhill Crane colt, other than being a little soggy, is doing very well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the rain there were not many cars in the lot when I arrived to help out at Reifel this afternoon. It also put a little bit of a damper on birding and photography. As wandering some of the inside trails was proving uneventful, I did check the outer fields and ponds. Nothing out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5241\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greater Yellowlegs&#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":[],"class_list":["post-5241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241","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=5241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5244,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions\/5244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}