{"id":2647,"date":"2012-09-07T22:12:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T05:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2012-09-07T22:12:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T05:12:14","slug":"pectoral-savannah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2647","title":{"rendered":"Pectoral & Savannah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back out to Boundary Bay for my walk this afternoon. Tides were not ideal, but you never know what you may find. There was nothing going on at the pilings so I carried on to the mansion. It was quiet there as well on my arrival.<\/p>\n

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

Then some Pectoral Sandpipers started to arrive. There was around 50 and I scanned them all closely hoping to find a Sharp-tailed, but no such luck.<\/p>\n

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

Today’s activity shots for the Pectoral Sandpipers,<\/p>\n

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

… was bath time. Several took to splashing about in the water.<\/p>\n

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

Then they settled in along the waters edge. There were a few peeps mixed in with them along with a couple of Lesser Yellowlegs, but nothing out of the ordinary made an appearance. On my way back I stopped at the pilings for a while. Not a single shore bird showed up while I was there. During my recent visits to this area I had noticed some other regular visitors to the pilings.<\/p>\n

\"Savannah
Savannah Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A flock of Savannah Sparrows routinely show up and spend time here.<\/p>\n

\"Savannah
Savannah Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So I took a little time to try a get a couple of shots of them before calling it a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back out to Boundary Bay for my walk this afternoon. Tides were not ideal, but you never know what you may find. There was nothing going on at the pilings so I carried on to the mansion. It was quiet there as well on my arrival. Then some Pectoral Sandpipers started to arrive. There was … Continue reading “Pectoral & Savannah”<\/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":[33,91],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-pectoral-sandpiper","tag-savannah-sparrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","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=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}