{"id":3296,"date":"2013-08-23T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2013-08-24T00:45:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T07:45:51","slug":"least-killdeer-bairds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3296","title":{"rendered":"Least, Killdeer & Baird’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was overcast and windy, but had a chance to get back out to Boundary Bay before the rain started. At least there were a few shore birds around this afternoon. I did not spot anything out of the ordinary, just the usual suspects for this time of year.<\/p>\n

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

I had some Least Sandpiper work there way toward me,<\/p>\n

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

… and then go by right in front of me. Nice to get the tiny ones this close. But what I was slowly working my way towards were\u00a0two Killdeer.<\/p>\n

\"Killdeer\"
Killdeer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I find it can be hit and miss with these birds as to how close they will let you get.<\/p>\n

\"Killdeer\"
Killdeer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today they were cooperating and when the two Killdeer got together,<\/p>\n

\"Killdeer\"
Killdeer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… they started to vocalize and put on a bit of a\u00a0display.<\/p>\n

\"Killdeer\"
Killdeer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A pleasant change of pace to have some quality time with these plovers. The last bird mixed in with this group I photographed,<\/p>\n

\"Baird's
Baird’s Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… was a Baird’s Sandpiper. Also around this afternoon were Pectoral Sandpipers, Western Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Semipalmated Plovers and Black-bellied Plovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was overcast and windy, but had a chance to get back out to Boundary Bay before the rain started. At least there were a few shore birds around this afternoon. I did not spot anything out of the ordinary, just the usual suspects for this time of year. I had some Least Sandpiper work … Continue reading “Least, Killdeer & Baird’s”<\/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":[41,62,45],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-bairds-sandpiper","tag-killdeer","tag-least-sandpiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","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=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3305,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}