{"id":5356,"date":"2019-05-19T21:28:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T05:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5356"},"modified":"2019-05-19T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T05:28:11","slug":"more-great-egret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5356","title":{"rendered":"More Great Egret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice day, the May long weekend and lots of visitors when I showed up at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reifel<\/a> to help out this afternoon. The highlight from the morning was the return of the Great Egret. Unfortunately it was seen flying off to the west prior to my arrival. Then while learning of other sightings from the morning walk,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5351\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5351\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG017b.jpg\" alt=\"Great Egret\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG017b.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG017b-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG017b-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-5351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; it flew back in to the sanctuary landing atop an evergreen.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5352\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5352\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5352\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG018.jpg\" alt=\"Great Egret\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG018.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG018-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG018-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From there it eventually flew down landing on this post in the rear of the house pond.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5353\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5353\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG019.jpg\" alt=\"Great Egret\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG019.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG019-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG019-300x240.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-5353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then it was time to do a little fishing,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5354\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5354\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG020.jpg\" alt=\"Great Egret\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG020.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG020-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG020-300x240.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-5354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; and take time out for striking the occasional pose. Note the beautiful plumage of this adult bird which was even more evident,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5355\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5355\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG021.jpg\" alt=\"Great Egret\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG021.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG021-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GREG021-300x240.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-5355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; when at one point it ruffled up all its feathers. Needless to say, the Great Egret delighted all that passed by this pond today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice day, the May long weekend and lots of visitors when I showed up at Reifel to help out this afternoon. The highlight from the morning was the return of the Great Egret. Unfortunately it was seen flying off to the west prior to my arrival. Then while learning of other sightings from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5356\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More 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-5356","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\/5356","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=5356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5357,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}