{"id":5247,"date":"2018-10-14T22:33:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T05:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5247"},"modified":"2018-10-16T07:47:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T14:47:27","slug":"belted-kingfisher-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5247","title":{"rendered":"Belted Kingfisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a month ago on a rainy Sunday afternoon at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reifel<\/a> I managed a photo of a <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5213\">Belted Kingfisher<\/a>. For that I was along an inside trail shooting towards a perch they were frequenting adjacent the centre dyke trail.<\/p>\n<p>Today on a sunny Sunday afternoon one was active in the same area again. This time while walking along the centre dyke trail I could hear it coming and then spotted it landing on a snag near the inside trail overlooking the pond. I moved slowly to an opening between the trees,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5246\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5246\" alt=\"Belted Kingfisher\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BEKI027.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BEKI027.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BEKI027-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BEKI027-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belted Kingfisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2026 and managed to get this photo of the Belted Kingfisher. A much better opportunity on a lovely day with softer colours in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a month ago on a rainy Sunday afternoon at Reifel I managed a photo of a Belted Kingfisher. For that I was along an inside trail shooting towards a perch they were frequenting adjacent the centre dyke trail. Today on a sunny Sunday afternoon one was active in the same area again. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Belted Kingfisher&#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":[204],"class_list":["post-5247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-belted-kingfisher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247","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=5247"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5253,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions\/5253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}