{"id":2756,"date":"2012-09-29T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2012-09-30T02:05:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T09:05:27","slug":"pecs-yellowlegs-plover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2756","title":{"rendered":"Pecs, Yellowlegs & Plover"},"content":{"rendered":"

While it was a little brighter at Boundary Bay today, which is good from the photography perspective, it was still fairly quiet on the birding front.<\/p>\n

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

At first I could only locate a handful of Pectoral Sandpipers.<\/p>\n

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

They were foraging close to the dyke along the high water mark.<\/p>\n

\"Greater
Greater Yellowlegs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the tidal pools around the pilings,<\/p>\n

\"Greater
Greater Yellowlegs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… was this lone Greater Yellowlegs.<\/p>\n

\"Greater
Greater Yellowlegs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was quite cooperative providing a few good photo opportunities.<\/p>\n

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

As the afternoon progressed I noticed there were several more Pectoral Sandpipers tucked away amongst the clumps of eelgrass a little further out. Still no Sharp-tailed Sandpiper though.<\/p>\n

\"Black-bellied
Black-bellied Plover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On my way back I managed to get fairly close to this Black-bellied Plover which was on its own on the periphery of the main flock.<\/p>\n

\"Mixed
Mixed Shore Bird Flock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This larger flock had Black-bellied Plovers, Dunlin, Sanderling and Western Sandpipers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While it was a little brighter at Boundary Bay today, which is good from the photography perspective, it was still fairly quiet on the birding front. At first I could only locate a handful of Pectoral Sandpipers. They were foraging close to the dyke along the high water mark. In the tidal pools around the … Continue reading “Pecs, Yellowlegs & Plover”<\/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":[31,81,33],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-black-bellied-plover","tag-greater-yellowlegs","tag-pectoral-sandpiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","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=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}