{"id":719,"date":"2011-06-17T22:48:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T05:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=719"},"modified":"2011-12-06T00:21:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T08:21:15","slug":"bewickss-great-horned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Bewicks’s & Great Horned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well it has been about a week since my last post. Unusual for me, although I had managed one outing, no pictures or news to speak of. Plans changed a couple of times this morning, but once all was said and done, there was a chance for an afternoon stroll.<\/p>\n

I headed out to Reifel<\/a> as there were still a couple of birds around on my list to see and hopefully photograph. Along the east dyke trail there were some Yellow Warblers singing and moving between the trees. I spent some time listening, watching and waiting to see if they would move to an area where I could at least attempt some photos. While it was fun to see them again, they were not going to cooperate for any shots.<\/p>\n

Then a noisy Bewick’s Wren caught my attention.<\/p>\n

\"Bewick's
Bewick's Wren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With a little coaxing,<\/p>\n

\"Bewick's
Bewick's Wren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… it did pop up a couple of times and provide some photo ops.<\/p>\n

I continued checking the east dyke and inside trails, but to no avail for the other birds I was wanting to see. The stand-by to fall back on this afternoon was a Great Horned Owl. It was roosting in the trees at the junction of the east and north dyke trails. I had stopped by earlier but did not like the light at the time. Given where the bird was, it was still on the harsh side.<\/p>\n

\"Great
Great Horned Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After preening it took time to strech its wings.<\/p>\n

\"Great
Great Horned Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It kept them fanned out like this for a few minutes.<\/p>\n

\"Great
Great Horned Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It then took up a more familiar posture. The sanctuary was closing in a few minutes and I had to leave. Too bad, as the light would have been a lot better in an hour or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well it has been about a week since my last post. Unusual for me, although I had managed one outing, no pictures or news to speak of. Plans changed a couple of times this morning, but once all was said and done, there was a chance for an afternoon stroll. I headed out to Reifel … Continue reading “Bewicks’s & Great Horned”<\/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":[94,77],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-bewicks-wren","tag-great-horned-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}