{"id":5335,"date":"2019-03-17T20:44:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T04:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5335"},"modified":"2019-04-27T23:57:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T07:57:53","slug":"american-bittern-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5335","title":{"rendered":"American Bittern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it was a beautiful day and lots of visitors at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reifel<\/a> this afternoon. The highlight of the day was a couple of American Bittern seen along the south dyke. While I did not find them on my first pass along the trail, they did make appearances later on. The first one was not in great spot for photos,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5325\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5325\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AMBI100.jpg\" alt=\"American Bittern\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AMBI100.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AMBI100-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AMBI100-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; but the second Bittern was in a much better location for viewing and photographing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5326\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5326\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AMBI101.jpg\" alt=\"American Bittern\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AMBI101.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AMBI101-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AMBI101-300x240.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-5326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To the delight of many visitors it foraged for food in this area the rest of the afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it was a beautiful day and lots of visitors at Reifel this afternoon. The highlight of the day was a couple of American Bittern seen along the south dyke. While I did not find them on my first pass along the trail, they did make appearances later on. The first one was not in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5335\" 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-5335","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\/5335","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=5335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5336,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions\/5336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}