{"id":5396,"date":"2021-09-09T22:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2021-09-20T06:12:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:12:05","slug":"black-necked-stilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5396","title":{"rendered":"Black-necked Stilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Received a message today concerning a fairly rare visitor to the Lower Mainland area. A Black-necked Stilt had been spotted at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reifel<\/a>. It has been almost five years to the day since my last photo of this species in this area. So taking a little time off work was in order.<\/p>\n<p>On arriving at the sanctuary I learned the bird was still present in the southwest field and headed right out there. On arriving there were several other birders\/photographers already there.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5387\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5387\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5387\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST003.jpg\" alt=\"Black-necked Stilt\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST003.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST003-320x400.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-necked Stilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Black-necked Stilt was not hard to spot amongst the Dowitchers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5388\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5388\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5388\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST005.jpg\" alt=\"Black-necked Stilt\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST005.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST005-320x400.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-necked Stilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The bird provided good viewing and photo opportunities. It would have nice if it was a little closer, but still a lot better than my last photo\/record shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Received a message today concerning a fairly rare visitor to the Lower Mainland area. A Black-necked Stilt had been spotted at Reifel. It has been almost five years to the day since my last photo of this species in this area. So taking a little time off work was in order. On arriving at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black-necked Stilt&#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":[261],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-black-necked-stilt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","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=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5405,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}