{"id":1092,"date":"2011-07-29T21:17:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T04:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2011-12-05T23:52:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T07:52:41","slug":"sharing-the-eelgrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"Sharing The Eelgrass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headed out to Boundary Bay late this afternoon to see what might be around. The tide was high and pretty much up to the dyke. With the usual foraging area covered in water, there was not much going on. For the Black-bellied Plovers that were around, it was a matter of finding a spot to roost.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1093\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1093\" title=\"Black-bellied Plovers\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BBPL023.jpg\" alt=\"Black-bellied Plovers\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BBPL023.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BBPL023-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BBPL023-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BBPL023-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-bellied Plovers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The clumps of eelgrass are commonly used by shore birds for just this purpose.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1094\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1094\" title=\"Black-bellied Plovers &amp; Sandpipers\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BBPL024.jpg\" alt=\"Black-bellied Plovers &amp; Sandpipers\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BBPL024.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BBPL024-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BBPL024-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BBPL024-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-bellied Plovers &amp; Sandpipers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There were some Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers also looking to find a spot.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1095\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1095\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1095\" title=\"Black-bellied Plovers &amp; Ring-billed Gulls\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BBPL025.jpg\" alt=\"Black-bellied Plovers &amp; Ring-billed Gulls\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BBPL025.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BBPL025-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BBPL025-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BBPL025-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-bellied Plovers &amp; Ring-billed Gulls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here there are half a dozen Black-bellied Plovers and a couple of Ring-billed Gulls sharing the same clump of eelgrass.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1096\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1096\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1096\" title=\"Whimbrel\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/WHIM010.jpg\" alt=\"Whimbrel\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/WHIM010.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/WHIM010-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/WHIM010-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/WHIM010-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whimbrel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And just to keep things interesting this Whimbrel flew by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headed out to Boundary Bay late this afternoon to see what might be around. The tide was high and pretty much up to the dyke. With the usual foraging area covered in water, there was not much going on. For the Black-bellied Plovers that were around, it was a matter of finding a spot to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1092\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sharing The Eelgrass&#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":[9,10],"tags":[31,55,56],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-black-bellied-plover","tag-ring-billed-gull","tag-whimbrel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","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=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}