{"id":1431,"date":"2011-10-07T23:40:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T06:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2011-12-05T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T06:50:08","slug":"plovers-pecs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1431","title":{"rendered":"Plovers & Pecs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boundary Bay was the destination this afternoon. A Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, one of the less common migrants at this time of year, had been sighted earlier this week. On my way to the area it was sighted, I came across a small group of plovers in close to the dyke. I continued past them, made my way down to the beach and then approached slowly.<\/p>\n

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

I fared better today than on previous occasions.<\/p>\n

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

This particular group seemed quite settled,<\/p>\n

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

… and allowed me to get quite close.<\/p>\n

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

A couple of the plovers were not too sure about me,<\/p>\n

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

… and would move around a little.<\/p>\n

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

This one decided to wander off and started foraging for food.<\/p>\n

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

While others continued to rest. Finally some quality time with the plovers. The tide had now come in and I decided to head further west to see what else might be around.<\/p>\n

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

I spotted only one small group of Pectoral Sandpipers.<\/p>\n

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

As is usually the case, they were more than happy to oblige me.<\/p>\n

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

I was surprised there were not more around and no Sharp-tailed. Unfortunately I could not stick around for the falling tide to see what might show up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boundary Bay was the destination this afternoon. A Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, one of the less common migrants at this time of year, had been sighted earlier this week. On my way to the area it was sighted, I came across a small group of plovers in close to the dyke. I continued past them, made my … Continue reading “Plovers & Pecs”<\/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":[31,33],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-black-bellied-plover","tag-pectoral-sandpiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","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=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}