{"id":2062,"date":"2012-04-06T23:37:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T06:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2012-04-07T01:37:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T08:37:40","slug":"birds-by-the-seashore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2062","title":{"rendered":"Birds By The Seashore"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a beautiful day to start the Easter long weekend. While I managed to hit more than one spot, the only one with birds cooperating was along the Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway.<\/p>\n

\"Harlequin
Harlequin Duck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First up were some Harlequin Ducks.<\/p>\n

\"Harlequin
Harlequin Duck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a few attempts I managed to get this pair together and both in focus.<\/p>\n

\"Harlequin
Harlequin Duck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This time of year is great for getting the males in breeding plumage.<\/p>\n

\"Horned
Horned Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were a few Horned Grebe around, but they were not coming in too close today.<\/p>\n

\"Common
Common Loon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were several Common Loons, this one having caught something on its last dive.<\/p>\n

\"Common
Common Loon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Every once and awhile, they would drift in closer to shore.<\/p>\n

\"Mew
Mew Gull<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Always lots of gulls around, but today I focused on the Mew Gulls.<\/p>\n

\"Mew
Mew Gull<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This one doing a nice fly-by low over the water.<\/p>\n

\"Common
Common Goldeneye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This Common Goldeneye also surfaced with something after a successful dive.<\/p>\n

\"Common
Common Goldeneye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then took time to stretch and fan its wings.<\/p>\n

\"Black
Black Scoter & Surf Scoter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To finish the afternoon was a mixed flock of Black Scoter and Surf Scoter.<\/p>\n

\"Surf
Surf Scoter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These are the Surf Scoter,<\/p>\n

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

… and here are the Black Scoter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a beautiful day to start the Easter long weekend. While I managed to hit more than one spot, the only one with birds cooperating was along the Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway. First up were some Harlequin Ducks. After a few attempts I managed to get this pair together and both in focus. This time … Continue reading “Birds By The Seashore”<\/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":[9,13],"tags":[158,157,155,154,25,156,24],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-tsawwassen-ferry-causeway","tag-black-scoter","tag-common-goldeneye","tag-common-loon","tag-harlequin-duck","tag-horned-grebe","tag-mew-gull","tag-surf-scoter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","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=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}