{"id":3596,"date":"2014-08-22T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3596"},"modified":"2014-08-22T22:08:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T05:08:43","slug":"a-semipalmated-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3596","title":{"rendered":"A Semipalmated Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was back out to Boundary Bay this afternoon. Timing was better this time as I would be there for the rising tide. While walking west from 104 Street along the beach I encountered some Baird&#8217;s Sandpipers again in the same area as last week. Then things started to pick up with lots of the smaller peeps around. On checking the mixed groups closely,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3597\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3597\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SESA027.jpg\" alt=\"Semipalmated Sandpiper\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SESA027.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SESA027-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SESA027-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SESA027-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Semipalmated Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; there were a few Semipalmated Sandpipers present. Also different from my last visit,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3598\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3598\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SEPL060.jpg\" alt=\"Semipalmated Plover\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SEPL060.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SEPL060-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SEPL060-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SEPL060-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Semipalmated Plover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; the Semipalmated Plovers were a little more cooperative this afternoon. Finishing off this photo session of the little guys,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3599\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3599\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/LESA058.jpg\" alt=\"Least Sandpiper\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/LESA058.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/LESA058-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/LESA058-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/LESA058-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Least Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; was some Least Sandpipers. In addition to these peeps there were\u00a0several Western Sandpiper present\u00a0and then on my way back with the tide almost all the way in, a few Pectoral Sandpipers showed up as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was back out to Boundary Bay this afternoon. Timing was better this time as I would be there for the rising tide. While walking west from 104 Street along the beach I encountered some Baird&#8217;s Sandpipers again in the same area as last week. Then things started to pick up with lots of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3596\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Semipalmated Day&#8221;<\/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":[45,44,75],"class_list":["post-3596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-least-sandpiper","tag-semipalmated-plover","tag-semipalmated-sandpiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596","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=3596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}