{"id":2685,"date":"2012-09-18T23:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2012-09-23T00:04:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T07:04:56","slug":"semipalmated-plovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2685","title":{"rendered":"Semipalmated Plovers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the lack of activity of late, I was back out at Boundary Bay a couple of hours before the high tide. The shoreline and tidal pools were quiet once again, but realizing this might be the case, there was a “Plan B”. This involved scanning some of the dryer areas further out for a shore bird that prefers these conditions, the Semipalmated Plover. It was not long before I located a small flock about 200m out from the pilings. As they were the only game in town, so to speak, I took my time approaching. The final 20m of the approach was down on my knees slowly moving the camera on the tripod in front of me. It took a little time, but was worth it as I managed to get fairly close without spooking the birds.<\/p>\n

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

After all that the first photo was not of a plover, but a Western Sandpiper with them.<\/p>\n

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

Then the Semipalmated Plovers started to work their way in front of me.<\/p>\n

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

I tried to position myself in the middle of the group,<\/p>\n

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

… hoping to improve my chances of getting multiple birds going by.<\/p>\n

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

Once in this close,<\/p>\n

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

… you want to keep your movement to a minimum.<\/p>\n

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

At times they would move away, but then come back towards me again.<\/p>\n

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

Then the Western Sandpiper trekked by once more.<\/p>\n

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

Both the Semipalmated Plover and Western Sandpiper are fairly small,<\/p>\n

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

… so being able to get this close certainly helps to get better photos. It was just shy of an hour I spent with these birds. I think that qualifies “Plan B” as a success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the lack of activity of late, I was back out at Boundary Bay a couple of hours before the high tide. The shoreline and tidal pools were quiet once again, but realizing this might be the case, there was a “Plan B”. This involved scanning some of the dryer areas further out for a … Continue reading “Semipalmated Plovers”<\/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":[44,63],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-semipalmated-plover","tag-western-sandpiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","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=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}