{"id":97,"date":"2011-03-06T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2011-12-06T01:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T09:33:00","slug":"american-bittern-long-eared-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"American Bittern & Long-eared Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started off in the morning at Reifel<\/a>, the plan being to help out on the trails with the usually busy Sunday visitors. I made a quick pass down the east dyke trail and counted five Northern Saw-whet Owls. None of which were in good locations for photos. I then headed to the outer trails and the southwest marsh area. Target birds were a Northern Goshawk and American Bittern. While there was no sign of the Goshawk, but the Bittern did not disappoint.<\/p>\n

\"American
American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was busy meandering through the tall grass and fishing in the slough.<\/p>\n

\"American
American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I spent a few hours along the south dyke pointing out this accommodating bird to visitors.<\/p>\n

\"American
American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Needless to say everyone, including myself, was treated to great views of a bird that usually does not like crowds.<\/p>\n

When taking a break from the trails I was informed that a Long-eared Owl had apparently been sighted out in Boundary Bay. Having missed it a few days ago I decided to head out there. On arriving it was not hard to locate, just look for the paparazzi!<\/p>\n

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

Word had gotten out and it definitely had drawn a crowd. Unfortunately there some who just had to get closer and subsequently flushed the bird from the tree.<\/p>\n

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

The owl moved a few times settling low in the grass and bushes. Something seemed to have its attention when it flew a short distance and down into another grassy area. I thought maybe it had caught a vole.<\/p>\n

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

No such luck, but it was sitting nicely out in the open. It then moved off east along the dyke. I had hoped it might start hunting, but did not stay airborne long before alighting in the grass again.<\/p>\n

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

All in all, a productive day with shots of what are usually a couple of elusive birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I started off in the morning at Reifel, the plan being to help out on the trails with the usually busy Sunday visitors. I made a quick pass down the east dyke trail and counted five Northern Saw-whet Owls. None of which were in good locations for photos. I then headed to the outer trails … Continue reading “American Bittern & 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":[9,10,11],"tags":[124,127],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-american-bittern","tag-long-eared-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}