{"id":668,"date":"2013-03-04T16:19:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T22:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=668"},"modified":"2013-03-04T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T22:19:52","slug":"red-flanked-bluetail-in-vancouver-january-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Red-flanked Bluetail in Vancouver &#8211; January 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARBA (North American Rare Bird Alert) has been reporting for quite a few days that a Code 4 Red-flanked Bluetail was being seen in Queen\u2019s Park, New Westminster,\u00a0British Columbia.\u00a0 I traveled there on January 25<sup>th<\/sup> and found my way to Queen\u2019s Park.\u00a0 Several people with binoculars or big cameras were wandering about, quite obviously in search of the same bird that I had come to see.\u00a0 One of them, a local resident, Ken Kennedy, took me under his\u00a0wing and guided me to the area where he had seen the bird on prior days.\u00a0 Sure enough, within minutes the little wanderer showed up and I was delighted to get views of him, making this my North American Bird # 714. Not only that, but along came a birder from Seattle, Hank Elliot, who took some great pictures of the <strong>Re<\/strong><strong>d-flanked Bluetail<\/strong> and he has allowed me to publish a couple of them on my blog.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-679\" style=\"color: #333333;font-style: normal;line-height: 24px\" alt=\"DSC_5759_Red-flanked Bluetail 2\" src=\"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC_5759_Red-flanked-Bluetail-2-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC_5759_Red-flanked-Bluetail-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC_5759_Red-flanked-Bluetail-2-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC_5759_Red-flanked-Bluetail-2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-678\" style=\"color: #333333;font-style: normal\" alt=\"DSC_5749_Red-flanked Bluetail 1\" src=\"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC_5749_Red-flanked-Bluetail-1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC_5749_Red-flanked-Bluetail-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC_5749_Red-flanked-Bluetail-1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC_5749_Red-flanked-Bluetail-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Primarily an Asian species, the Bluetail has been seen previously in the western Aleutians, but seldom, if ever, as far south and east as Vancouver.\u00a0 This one appears to be a young male, not quite as blue as an adult male, but showing more blue than the female of the species.\u00a0 I stayed overnight at Haddon House B &amp; B in nearby Burnaby, which I highly recommend.\u00a0 Johannes, the proprietor, directed me to a wonderful neighborhood restaurant for dinner, Hart House, and it was delicious.\u00a0 I particularly recommend the Parsnip Soup Voloute.\u00a0 Not to be outdone in culinary prowess, the next morning Johannes prepared a bountiful breakfast spread including one of the nicest omelettes that I have demolished in a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARBA (North American Rare Bird Alert) has been reporting for quite a few days that a Code 4 Red-flanked Bluetail was being seen in Queen\u2019s Park, New Westminster,\u00a0British Columbia.\u00a0 I traveled there on January 25th and found my way to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=668\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-northamericanbirding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}