{"id":2604,"date":"2012-08-31T23:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T06:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2012-09-01T01:15:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T08:15:49","slug":"bairds-western-pectoral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"Baird’s, Western & Pectoral"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Buff-breasted Sandpiper had been reported in a field along 72 St. A turf farm frequented by shore birds, but not a great spot to try and get photos. So on Tuesday I headed out to Boundary Bay in the hopes it would make an appearance there. I walked from 104 St. to the mansion with no sighting of the Buff-breasted.<\/p>\n

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

There were some Baird’s Sandpiper resting along the beach.<\/p>\n

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

And as the tide came in,<\/p>\n

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

… the Western Sandpiper were looking to roost on anything that would keep them above the rising water. For these photos I am out in the water shooting back into towards shore.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Buff-breated Sandpiper continuing in the same location, a Ruff had also been observed yesterday in Boundary Bay. I made my way out there again this afternoon. Scouring the beach all the way to the mansion I was not coming up with anything out of the ordinary. I had ignored some birders signalling me from the dyke to check this area out.<\/p>\n

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

I did turn up some Pectoral Sandpipers,<\/p>\n

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

… sharing a clump of eelgrass with some Western Sandpipers. But, I should have paid attention to my friend Tak who was waiving to me. Turns out they were in contact with some other birders who had the Ruff back at the pilings. By the time I got back there and talked to them it had gone. On top of that I learned a Sharp-tailed Sandpiper had also been sighted in the area today. Guess where I will be tomorrow?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Buff-breasted Sandpiper had been reported in a field along 72 St. A turf farm frequented by shore birds, but not a great spot to try and get photos. So on Tuesday I headed out to Boundary Bay in the hopes it would make an appearance there. I walked from 104 St. to the mansion … Continue reading “Baird’s, Western & Pectoral”<\/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":[41,33,63],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-bairds-sandpiper","tag-pectoral-sandpiper","tag-western-sandpiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","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=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}