{"id":2613,"date":"2012-09-01T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T19:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2012-09-02T02:42:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T09:42:35","slug":"ruff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"Ruff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having missed on a couple of good birds yesterday, I headed out to Boundary Bay this morning. I made my way straight out to the pilings from 104 St. On approaching I was encouraged to see a group of Yellowlegs foraging in the area. Now it was time for a closer look.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2628\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2628\" title=\"Ruff\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RUFF006.jpg\" alt=\"Ruff\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RUFF006.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RUFF006-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RUFF006-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RUFF006-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was not too long before I spotted the Ruff on the west side of the pilings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2629\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2629\" title=\"Ruff\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RUFF007.jpg\" alt=\"Ruff\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RUFF007.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RUFF007-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RUFF007-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RUFF007-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ruff is a fairly rare visitor to this area, it has been 4 1\/2 years since I last saw and photographed one in the Boundary Bay area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2630\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2630\" title=\"Ruff\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RUFF008.jpg\" alt=\"Ruff\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RUFF008.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RUFF008-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RUFF008-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RUFF008-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Based on the rather buffy appearance this bird\u00a0is likely\u00a0a juvenile. Then they all left after being spooked by something. I waited and eventually the Yellowlegs and a couple of Dowitchers returned, but no Ruff. I will give it another go this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having missed on a couple of good birds yesterday, I headed out to Boundary Bay this morning. I made my way straight out to the pilings from 104 St. On approaching I was encouraged to see a group of Yellowlegs foraging in the area. Now it was time for a closer look. It was not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2613\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ruff&#8221;<\/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":[179],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-ruff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","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=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}