{"id":1151,"date":"2011-08-14T22:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T05:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2011-12-05T23:39:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T07:39:10","slug":"duck-gull-sandpipers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"Duck, Gull, Sandpipers & Plovers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not having been there in several days I headed out to Reifel<\/a> this afternoon. It was fairly quiet for a Sunday as far as people go. It was also relatively quiet on the birding front as well. New arrivals are still showing up,<\/p>\n

\"Gadwall\"
Gadwall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… but the Gadwall due tend to be a little later with their broods.<\/p>\n

On the shore bird front there were a number of Yellowlegs present.<\/p>\n

\"Lesser
Lesser Yellowlegs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today most of those present,<\/p>\n

\"Lesser
Lesser Yellowlegs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… were Lesser Yellowlegs.<\/p>\n

One bird I would not expect to find on the inner ponds,<\/p>\n

\"Bonaparte's
Bonaparte's Gull<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… was this Bonaparte’s Gull.<\/p>\n

\"Bonaparte's
Bonaparte's Gull<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Around here you would normally find them in open water and along the shore line.<\/p>\n

\"Red-necked
Red-necked Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were four Red-necked Phalaropes,<\/p>\n

\"Red-necked
Red-necked Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… but they were not coming very close to the dyke.<\/p>\n

After Reifel I headed down to Boundary Bay Regional Park in Tsawwassen for the high tide. A Pacific Golden Plover had been seen there earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

\"Semipalmated
Semipalmated Plover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Semipalmated
Semipalmated Plover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It had been seen frequenting the area with some Semipalmated Plovers,<\/p>\n

\"Killdeer\"
Killdeer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… and Killdeer. While I managed some shots of the Semipalmated Plovers and Killdeer, there was no sign of the Golden Plover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not having been there in several days I headed out to Reifel this afternoon. It was fairly quiet for a Sunday as far as people go. It was also relatively quiet on the birding front as well. New arrivals are still showing up, … but the Gadwall due tend to be a little later with … Continue reading “Duck, Gull, Sandpipers & Plovers”<\/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":[9,11],"tags":[60,59,62,48,61,44],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-bonapartes-gull","tag-gadwall","tag-killdeer","tag-lesser-yellowlegs","tag-red-necked-phalarope","tag-semipalmated-plover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","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=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}