Boundary Bay – Page 7 – CrazyM Bird & Nature Photography

Western Sandpiper

Late this afternoon I headed out to Boundary Bay again for the rising tide. Initially there were small groups of Baird’s, Least and Western Sandpipers. As the tide started making its way inward things picked up with hundreds of Western and some Black-bellied Plovers. While there were lots more birds than my last walk here, I was just not getting them where I preferred for photos on the tidal flats. With so many of them bombing around, I decided to try my hand at some flight shots before calling it a day.

Definitely a challenge tracking these fast moving small shorebirds, but I did manage this keeper of a Western Sandpiper.

Western, Baird’s + Least Sandpipers

Braved the heat and headed out to Boundary Bay for the high tide, which turned out to be not very high at all. I walked the tidal flats between 104 Street and the mansion. Much to my dismay there was not much around at all. At the mansion there were a couple of Lesser Yellowlegs and Least Sandpipers. On my way back there was another small group,

… the larger Killdeer got my attention first.

Then the Western Sandpiper. There were also a couple of Least Sandpiper in this group as well. A little further on,

… were two Baird’s Sandpiper foraging amongst the sea weed. Before packing it in,

… another small mixed group of Western and Least Sandpipers landed amongst the pilings. Pretty slim pickings today.

Northern Flicker

Having checked a few other locations for fall/winter birds recently I headed out to Boundary Bay at the foot of 72 St. this afternoon. There were the usual Northern Harriers and a lone Short-eared Owl that I saw. A pleasant surprise was a small flock of Western Meadowlarks, but they were not cooperating.

The only birds that provided half decent photo ops for me,

was a few Northern Flickers.