{"id":1276,"date":"2011-09-02T16:45:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T23:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2011-12-05T23:15:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T07:15:47","slug":"more-stilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"More Stilts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I headed out to Reifel<\/a> again this morning. On checking the outer ponds by the tower I caught a brief glimpse of a Stilt Sandpiper with some Lesser Yellowlegs, but they all got flushed before I could get any photos. On moving to the outside trail I located three Stilt Sandpipers, but now the light was all wrong and then a Peregrine swooped through and flushed them all again.<\/p>\n

I continued scanning the outer ponds locating the usual Dowitchers, Western, Semipalmated, Least and Pectoral Sandpipers. There were a few Killdeer around and then another nice find for the day were two Red-necked Phalaropes. Unfortunately they were too far off for any photos.<\/p>\n

Not wanting to give up on the Stilts I made another trip along the outside dyke.<\/p>\n

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

I still struggle with identifying Dowitchers (Short-billed\/Long-billed), but this one was taking a time out form foraging for food.<\/p>\n

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

Lesser Yellowlegs are still out numbering Greater Yellowlegs.<\/p>\n

\"Stilt
Stilt Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then the three Stilt Sandpipers showed up together.<\/p>\n

\"Lesser
Lesser Yellowlegs & Stilt Sandpipers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here the three are tagging along behind a Lesser Yellowlegs.<\/p>\n

\"Stilt
Stilt Sandpipers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With all the tall vegetation along the side of the dyke it was difficult to get photos.<\/p>\n

\"Stilt
Stilt Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hopefully they stick around for the weekend visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I headed out to Reifel again this morning. On checking the outer ponds by the tower I caught a brief glimpse of a Stilt Sandpiper with some Lesser Yellowlegs, but they all got flushed before I could get any photos. On moving to the outside trail I located three Stilt Sandpipers, but now the light … Continue reading “More Stilts”<\/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":[47,48,49],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-dowitcher","tag-lesser-yellowlegs","tag-stilt-sandpiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","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=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}