{"id":732,"date":"2011-06-18T21:17:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T04:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=732"},"modified":"2012-04-20T19:37:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T02:37:55","slug":"first-willow-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"First Willow Of The Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not long into my walk after the rain there was the familiar &#8220;fitz-bew&#8221; I had not yet heard this year. After moving to the area of the call, scanning the bush and tree tops, I found the source of the call.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-733\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-733 \" title=\"Willow Flycatcher\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/WIFL028.jpg\" alt=\"Willow Flycatcher\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/WIFL028.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/WIFL028-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/WIFL028-300x199.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-733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willow Flycatcher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My first Willow Flycatcher of the season. A rather distant shot, so I decided to spend some time in the area. While waiting for the Willow Flycatcher to cooperate,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-734\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-734 \" title=\"Common Yellowthroat\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/COYE035.jpg\" alt=\"Common Yellowthroat\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/COYE035.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/COYE035-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/COYE035-300x199.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-734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Common Yellowthroat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; this Common Yellowthroat was foraging for bugs in the bushes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-735\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-735 \" title=\"Lazuli Bunting\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LAZB018.jpg\" alt=\"Lazuli Bunting\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LAZB018.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LAZB018-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LAZB018-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lazuli Bunting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Lazuli Buntings were still in the area,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-736\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-736 \" title=\"Lazuli Bunting\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LAZB019.jpg\" alt=\"Lazuli Bunting\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LAZB019.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LAZB019-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LAZB019-300x199.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-736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lazuli Bunting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; and would routinely stop by and sing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-737\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-737 \" title=\"Bewick's Wren\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BEWR015.jpg\" alt=\"Bewick's Wren\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BEWR015.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BEWR015-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BEWR015-300x199.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-737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bewick&#39;s Wren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also paying a visit was this Bewick&#8217;s Wren. It seemed everything but the Willow was going to provide photo ops. Obviously it is going to take a return trip or two to try for some better shots now that they are back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long into my walk after the rain there was the familiar &#8220;fitz-bew&#8221; I had not yet heard this year. After moving to the area of the call, scanning the bush and tree tops, I found the source of the call. My first Willow Flycatcher of the season. A rather distant shot, so I decided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=732\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Willow Of The Season&#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":[9,160],"tags":[94,92,93,89],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-north-40","tag-bewicks-wren","tag-common-yellowthroat","tag-lazuli-bunting","tag-willow-flycatcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}