{"id":5401,"date":"2021-09-19T21:38:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T04:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2021-09-20T06:39:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:39:17","slug":"more-black-necked-stilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5401","title":{"rendered":"More Black-necked Stilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good news on arriving to help out on the trails today at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reifel<\/a> was that the Black-necked Stilt was still around and at the rear of the house pond. Needless to say that was my first stop.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5390\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5390\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5390\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST008.jpg\" alt=\"Black-necked Stilt\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST008.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST008-500x400.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-necked Stilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Apparently the Stilt had been following some Northern Shovelers in the pond earlier in the day, perhaps checking out what they were stirring up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5391\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5391\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST011.jpg\" alt=\"Black-necked Stilt\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST011.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST011-500x400.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-necked Stilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While the ducks were still around, while I was watching it hung around with the Greater Yellowlegs or would wander off on its own.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5392\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5392\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST012.jpg\" alt=\"Black-necked Stilt\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST012.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST012-320x400.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-necked Stilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While preening off and on, the bird also provided a couple of chances to get shots like this.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5393\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5393\" src=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST013.jpg\" alt=\"Black-necked Stilt\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST013.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BNST013-500x400.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-necked Stilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The nice thing about this location in the sanctuary is that you are at the same level as the bird for a more natural perspective. The lighting and reflected colors on this particular pond can also enhance your photo opportunities. Being a little closer to your subject doesn&#8217;t hurt either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news on arriving to help out on the trails today at Reifel was that the Black-necked Stilt was still around and at the rear of the house pond. Needless to say that was my first stop. Apparently the Stilt had been following some Northern Shovelers in the pond earlier in the day, perhaps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5401\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More 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-5401","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\/5401","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=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5406,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions\/5406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}