{"id":87,"date":"2011-03-09T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2011-12-06T01:31:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T09:31:33","slug":"long-eared-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Long-eared Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the down pour this morning it did clear up and I headed out to Boundary Bay to try and relocate the Long-eared Owl. It was still fairly windy, but pleasant enough. After walking both east and west along the dyke I came up emptied handed. As there was still time left I figured I would head out to Reifel. As I was leaving the parking area a lump along the ditch west of the road caught my eye. On closer examination with binoculars it was in fact the Long-eared Owl. Time to park again, get the gear out and wait to see if would come out more into the open.<\/p>\n

\"Long-eared
Long-eared Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After initially flying up to a post along the ditch it then made its way to a tree alongside the road. It then flew down to a fence post beside the road.<\/p>\n

\"Long-eared
Long-eared Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Long-eared
Long-eared Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After this it flew back down to roost in the tall grass. With it not moving I went back out onto the dyke to check for Short-eared Owls. While there were a couple over the marsh, no real photo opportunities arose. When heading back to the car I could see the Long-eared was still roosting in the grass. Then I noticed another owl on a post along the ditch as well. Thinking it was a Short-eared I took a quick look through the camera. Much to my surprise it was another Long-eared Owl.<\/p>\n

\"Long-eared
Long-eared Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This second bird then flew down and roosted in the blackberry on the edge of the ditch.<\/p>\n

\"Long-eared
Long-eared Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was happy seeing one again. Two definitely made my day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the down pour this morning it did clear up and I headed out to Boundary Bay to try and relocate the Long-eared Owl. It was still fairly windy, but pleasant enough. After walking both east and west along the dyke I came up emptied handed. As there was still time left I figured I … Continue reading “Long-eared Owl”<\/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":[9,10],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-long-eared-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}