{"id":2045,"date":"2012-04-01T23:16:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T06:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2012-04-01T23:16:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T06:16:34","slug":"blackbird-turnstone-oystercatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2045","title":{"rendered":"Blackbird, Turnstone & Oystercatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was still on the cool side this April Fool’s Day with their being a light dusting of snow in some parts of the greater Vancouver area. The skies were blue when I headed down to the Tsawwassen area and the southern portion of Boundary Bay Regional Park. As Mountain Bluebirds have been reported of late, this would be a good spot to check as they usually pass through here each year at this time. While I had no luck on the Bluebird front,<\/p>\n

\"Red-winged
Red-winged Blackbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… there were some Red-winged Blackbirds willing to cooperate.<\/p>\n

\"Red-winged
Red-winged Blackbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were a few busy amongst the bullrush\/cattail.<\/p>\n

Already being in Tsawwassen, I headed to the ferry causeway after this. Unfortunately the sun disappeared behind some clouds when I arrived and the wind off the water was cold.<\/p>\n

\"Black
Black Turnstone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Too bad the conditions turned for the worse as there were a few groups of Black Turnstone foraging along the shoreline. One of which appeared to have a Surfbird mixed in with them. It has been a while since I have managed any Surfbird shots.<\/p>\n

\"Black
Black Oystercatcher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The usual Black Oystercatcher were about as well. It was just too grey and cold to spend much time with them on the beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was still on the cool side this April Fool’s Day with their being a light dusting of snow in some parts of the greater Vancouver area. The skies were blue when I headed down to the Tsawwassen area and the southern portion of Boundary Bay Regional Park. As Mountain Bluebirds have been reported of … Continue reading “Blackbird, Turnstone & Oystercatcher”<\/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":[9,10,13],"tags":[82,153,19],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","category-tsawwassen-ferry-causeway","tag-black-oystercatcher","tag-black-turnstone","tag-red-winged-blackbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","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=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}