{"id":755,"date":"2011-06-21T22:20:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T05:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=755"},"modified":"2012-04-20T19:36:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T02:36:42","slug":"kingbirds-coopers-willow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"Kingbirds, Cooper’s & Willow"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon I headed out to the Boundary Bay area to try for some better shots of the Willow Flycatcher. I had no sooner started on my walk when I noticed a large flycatcher in a tree at the beginning of the trail.<\/p>\n

\"Western
Western Kingbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On getting a closer look it was a Western Kingbird.<\/p>\n

\"Western
Western Kingbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What a great way to start this outing,<\/p>\n

\"Western
Western Kingbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… these are my first shots of a Western Kingbird and a new addition to my photo list.<\/p>\n

When checking one of the spots for the Willow Flycatcher,<\/p>\n

\"Cedar
Cedar Waxwing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This Cedar Waxwing showed up for a brief visit on some dead fall.<\/p>\n

\"Cooper's
Cooper's Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then I noticed one of the nesting Cooper’s Hawk in a Willow Tree.<\/p>\n

\"Cooper's
Cooper's Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was preening and stretching while roosting in the tree.<\/p>\n

\"Willow
Willow Flycatcher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then a familiar call took me back to where I had seen the Waxwing.<\/p>\n

\"Willow
Willow Flycatcher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Willow Flycatcher was located down low in the bramble and allowed me to get fairly close. A little better than the distant shot of the other day.<\/p>\n

So far, so good. I headed back to where I had seen the Western Kingbird. On approaching I saw something fly from the same tree into an adjacent field.<\/p>\n

\"Eastern
Eastern Kingbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Perched on a small tree I found not the Western Kingbird, but an Eastern Kingbird.<\/p>\n

\"Eastern
Eastern Kingbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was flycatching from this low perch and I managed a shot of it with its catch. Two different Kingbirds in one day, cannot ask for much more than that.<\/p>\n

\"Savannah
Savannah Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prior to leaving a couple of Savannah Sparrows caught my eye.<\/p>\n

\"Savannah
Savannah Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unsure if they had a nest with young nearby, but they were busy gathering grubs and frequenting the tree from the first shot.<\/p>\n

It was a lovely afternoon for the first day of summer. A productive one as well on the birding and photography front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This afternoon I headed out to the Boundary Bay area to try for some better shots of the Willow Flycatcher. I had no sooner started on my walk when I noticed a large flycatcher in a tree at the beginning of the trail. On getting a closer look it was a Western Kingbird. What a … Continue reading “Kingbirds, Cooper’s & Willow”<\/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":[88,54,90,91,87,89],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-north-40","tag-cedar-waxwing","tag-coopers-hawk","tag-eastern-kingbird","tag-savannah-sparrow","tag-western-kingbird","tag-willow-flycatcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","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=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}