{"id":2579,"date":"2012-08-25T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T06:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2012-08-28T20:02:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T03:02:23","slug":"afternoon-at-the-ruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2579","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon At The Ruins"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Ruins” is a phrase coined by my cousin when she saw a photo of the old pilings and remnants of what used to be a cannery in Boundary Bay.<\/p>\n

\"The
The Ruins, pilings of old cannery at Boundary Bay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To the local birders it is just the pilings between 96 St. and 104 St. which is where I decided to spend some time this afternoon.<\/p>\n

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

Lots of Lesser Yellowlegs around again today.<\/p>\n

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

Once again they were quite cooperative,<\/p>\n

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

… foraging in front and all around me.<\/p>\n

\"Baird's
Baird’s Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A few Baird’s Sandpiper came and went, but I did not have as much luck with them.<\/p>\n

\"Red-necked
Red-necked Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The pleasant surprise of the afternoon,<\/p>\n

\"Red-necked
Red-necked Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… was this Red-necked Phalarope. Then the birds scattered a couple of times, but when I looked up I could not see anything.<\/p>\n

\"Peregrine
Peregrine Falcon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was not until looking over my shoulder I saw the Peregrine Falcon roosting on some driftwood not too far off on the beach. Once it left the birds started returning.<\/p>\n

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

Some Least Sandpiper landed right in front of me,<\/p>\n

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

… and got quite close working their way along the edge of the tidal pool around the pilings.<\/p>\n

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

Being the smallest of the peeps, you cannot complain when they are in this close proximity to you and your camera.<\/p>\n

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

Not much bigger than the Least, some Semipalmated Sandpiper showed up just as I was leaving. Another good afternoon on the bay considering I stayed in the same spot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The Ruins” is a phrase coined by my cousin when she saw a photo of the old pilings and remnants of what used to be a cannery in Boundary Bay. To the local birders it is just the pilings between 96 St. and 104 St. which is where I decided to spend some time this … Continue reading “Afternoon At The Ruins”<\/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":[41,45,48,4,61,75],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-bairds-sandpiper","tag-least-sandpiper","tag-lesser-yellowlegs","tag-peregrine-falcon","tag-red-necked-phalarope","tag-semipalmated-sandpiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","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=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2593,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/2593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}