{"id":1321,"date":"2011-09-09T22:11:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T05:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2011-12-05T23:10:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T07:10:03","slug":"pectoral-sandpipers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"Pectoral Sandpipers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon it was back out to Boundary Bay. On heading out along the dyke I was noticing mostly Pectoral, Baird’s and Least Sandpipers around the tidal pools. There were some Semiplamated Plovers further out. I continued out to 96 St. and then made my way down to the beach. There was not much around between here and the old pilings. As there seemed to be lots of Pectoral Sandpipers today, I continued back to where I had seen them. On relocating one nice sized group I decided to focus on them.<\/p>\n

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

They seemed a little uneasy on my approach.<\/p>\n

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

So I dropped down and proceeded on my knees and they settled back into their routine.<\/p>\n

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

Before you know it, they were striking nice poses for me.<\/p>\n

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

While some relaxed and rested amongst the seaweed,<\/p>\n

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

… others continued foraging for food.<\/p>\n

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

After probing the ground this one came up draped in seaweed.<\/p>\n

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

As you can see they were quite comfortable with my being there now. Some even wandering in too close for photos. That is when you just sit back and enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This afternoon it was back out to Boundary Bay. On heading out along the dyke I was noticing mostly Pectoral, Baird’s and Least Sandpipers around the tidal pools. There were some Semiplamated Plovers further out. I continued out to 96 St. and then made my way down to the beach. There was not much around … Continue reading “Pectoral Sandpipers”<\/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":[33],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-pectoral-sandpiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","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=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}