{"id":77,"date":"2011-03-15T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2011-12-06T01:30:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T09:30:26","slug":"bittern-northern-saw-whet-owl-golden-crowned-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Bittern, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Golden-crowned Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between work and the rain I managed a few brief walks over the last week. The American Bittern continues to show well along the south dyke at <a title=\"George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reifel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78 \" title=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI042.jpg\" alt=\"American Bittern\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI042.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI042-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI042-300x199.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-78\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79 \" title=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI045.jpg\" alt=\"American Bittern\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI045.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI045-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI045-300x199.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-79\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the wintering Northern Saw-whet Owls was a little more visible one afternoon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80 \" title=\"Northern Saw-whet Owl\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NSWO040.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Saw-whet Owl\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NSWO040.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NSWO040-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NSWO040-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Saw-whet Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Figured I would take this shot while it was snoozing away the afternoon because it won\u2019t be long before they migrate to their nesting areas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_81\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81 \" title=\"Golden-crowned Sparrow\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/GCSP024.jpg\" alt=\"Golden-crowned Sparrow\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/GCSP024.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/GCSP024-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/GCSP024-300x199.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-81\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden-crowned Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While I could locate no unusual sparrows, this Golden-crowned struck a half decent pose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between work and the rain I managed a few brief walks over the last week. The American Bittern continues to show well along the south dyke at Reifel. One of the wintering Northern Saw-whet Owls was a little more visible one afternoon. Figured I would take this shot while it was snoozing away the afternoon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=77\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bittern, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Golden-crowned Sparrow&#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":[124,126,14],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-american-bittern","tag-golden-crowned-sparrow","tag-northern-saw-whet-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}