{"id":5348,"date":"2019-05-17T22:09:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T06:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2019-05-19T11:16:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T19:16:27","slug":"great-egret-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5348","title":{"rendered":"Great Egret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to getting to my to-do list for the afternoon I was checking a few things online. One of which was the <a href=\"http:\/\/bcbirdalert.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BC Bird Alert<\/a> site (Vancouver and area section) and noted that a Great Egret had been reported at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reifel<\/a>.&nbsp; So much for the to-do list and I packed up my gear and headed out.<\/p>\n<p>On arriving I learned the bird was still present in Robertson Slough, the one adjacent to the driveway. It had first been spotted in the house pond in the sanctuary and then moved to the slough. As visibility of portions of the slough along the driveway are obstructed by trees and bushes, it took&nbsp; a couple of passes and some help from Kathleen, the manager, to find it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5343\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5343\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG013b.jpg\" alt=\"Great Egret\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG013b.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG013b-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG013b-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-5343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was tucked in along the far bank of the slough foraging for fish.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5344\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5344\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG014.jpg\" alt=\"Great Egret\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG014.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG014-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG014-300x240.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-5344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It would routinely move to different locations and provided the opportunity for this flight shot.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5345\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5345\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5345\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG017.jpg\" alt=\"Great Egret\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG017.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG017-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG017-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We do not see a lot of them in this area and the last time I saw a Great Egret at the sanctuary was Sep\/Oct 2015. There has also been another recent sighting it Langley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to getting to my to-do list for the afternoon I was checking a few things online. One of which was the BC Bird Alert site (Vancouver and area section) and noted that a Great Egret had been reported at Reifel.&nbsp; So much for the to-do list and I packed up my gear and headed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great Egret&#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":[225],"class_list":["post-5348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-great-egret"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348","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=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5350,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}