{"id":2668,"date":"2012-09-14T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2012-09-15T00:57:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T07:57:36","slug":"pipit-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2668","title":{"rendered":"Pipit & Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoons visit to Boundary Bay for the rising tide was similar to my last. Very minimal shore bird activity or presence at all. Unusual for this area (between 104 St. and the mansion) given the time of year. But not all was lost,<\/p>\n

\"American
American Pipit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… this American Pipit stayed in one spot for a time allowing me to get quite close. A little out of the ordinary for these birds, usually they are constantly on the move.<\/p>\n

\"Great
Great Blue Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Also relaxed and unconcerned with my presence was this Great Blue Heron doing a little stretching. Some of the shore birds I did see were Baird’s, Pectoral and Least Sandpipers, Long-billed Dowitcher, Greater Yellowlegs, Semipalmated\u00a0 and Black-bellied Plovers.<\/p>\n

A number of the tidal pools have dried up as the tide has not been that high of late. Tonight it came up to the dyke. Hopefully this will restore some of these tidal pools making the area more attractive to some of the shore birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This afternoons visit to Boundary Bay for the rising tide was similar to my last. Very minimal shore bird activity or presence at all. Unusual for this area (between 104 St. and the mansion) given the time of year. But not all was lost, … this American Pipit stayed in one spot for a time … Continue reading “Pipit & Heron”<\/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":[40,66],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-american-pipit","tag-great-blue-heron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","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=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}