{"id":1123,"date":"2011-08-07T22:30:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T05:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2011-12-05T23:43:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T07:43:18","slug":"knot-turnstones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1123","title":{"rendered":"Knot & Turnstones"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was back to shore birds this afternoon, so I headed out to Boundary Bay. On arriving I met some fellow birders, a few I had not seen in some time. On speaking with them the highlights of the the afternoon had been a Red Knot and a couple of Ruddy Turnstones aside from the usual Black-bellied Plovers and some peeps.<\/p>\n

The tide was not going to come in much further than it already was. A few of us took a quick stroll west along the dyke as it had not been checked yet. Not finding anything we returned to the group and chatted for a bit. The group was getting ready to leave so I asked if anyone wanted to take one last look before I headed out on the beach, not wanting to flush anything if they were still interested in watching from the dyke with their scopes. This was when a Red Knot was located again out with the Plovers.<\/p>\n

The Red Knot is a bird I do not have a photo of yet. Once the group left I headed out on to the beach and the area the Knot had been seen. I got as close as the Plovers would allow without them moving off. Unfortunately it was not very close at all, which is normally the case with these birds. I stayed put down low watching when I noticed some movement a little closer, but still some distance away.<\/p>\n

\"Red
Red Knot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Red
Red Knot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was similar to what had been pointed out by the group on the dyke. From this distance I could also see some faint orangey\/red in the belly area almost to the flanks.<\/p>\n

\"Red
Red Knot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Red
Red Knot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am hoping this is a Red Knot, but not being certain posted one of the photos to a local bird group for ID.<\/p>\n

\"Red
Red Knot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hardly great photos (huge crops), but they are record shots of what hopefully will be another addition to my life photo list.<\/p>\n

While watching the Plovers I took a couple of shots of some groups as they flew by. On checking one of the photos a little closer,<\/p>\n

\"Ruddy
Ruddy Turnstone & Black-bellied Plover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… I could see two Ruddy Turnstones. In this crop they are the first two birds followed by\u00a0 three Black-belied Plovers. So while not actively looking for them, I still managed to capture them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was back to shore birds this afternoon, so I headed out to Boundary Bay. On arriving I met some fellow birders, a few I had not seen in some time. On speaking with them the highlights of the the afternoon had been a Red Knot and a couple of Ruddy Turnstones aside from the … Continue reading “Knot & Turnstones”<\/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":[31,65,57],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-black-bellied-plover","tag-red-knot","tag-ruddy-turnstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","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=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}