{"id":2781,"date":"2012-10-08T22:55:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T05:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2012-10-10T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T18:04:00","slug":"grebes-gulls-loons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2781","title":{"rendered":"Grebes, Gulls & Loons"},"content":{"rendered":"

After dropping off family that were visiting for the long weekend at the ferry, I noticed there were several Loons along the causeway. Not having been there in a while, thought I would give them a try today. Of course there were none in sight when I started my walk.<\/p>\n

\"Horned
Horned Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were, however, good numbers of Horned Grebe.<\/p>\n

\"Horned
Horned Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They were busy diving and catching small fish. While a little leery initially,<\/p>\n

\"Horned
Horned Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… they went about their activities not too far off from the shoreline. I was not the only one interested in the Grebes.<\/p>\n

\"Ring-billed
Ring-billed Gull<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This Ring-billed Gull was adhering to the old adage, why catch your own when you can take someone else’s.<\/p>\n

\"Bonaparte's
Bonaparte’s Gull<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A couple of Bonapate’s Gulls hoping for the same did not fair as well. As I continued along the ferry causeway towards the terminal there were some Loons.<\/p>\n

\"Common
Common Loon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unfortunately, despite the high tied they were not coming in that close this afternoon.<\/p>\n

\"Black
Black Oystercatcher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of course there are always some of the regulars along the causeway to make up for this. Such as the Black Oystercatcher, of which there were about six around,<\/p>\n

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

… and a few Great Blue Heron. Then on my way back with the sun going down,<\/p>\n

\"Common
Common Loon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… one last chance for a Common Loon with this juvenile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After dropping off family that were visiting for the long weekend at the ferry, I noticed there were several Loons along the causeway. Not having been there in a while, thought I would give them a try today. Of course there were none in sight when I started my walk. There were, however, good numbers … Continue reading “Grebes, Gulls & Loons”<\/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":[9,13],"tags":[82,60,155,66,25,55],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-tsawwassen-ferry-causeway","tag-black-oystercatcher","tag-bonapartes-gull","tag-common-loon","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-horned-grebe","tag-ring-billed-gull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","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=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2794,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}