{"id":3613,"date":"2014-09-10T21:42:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T04:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2014-09-11T22:07:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T05:07:15","slug":"peregrine-merlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3613","title":{"rendered":"Peregrine &#038; Merlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tidal flats at Boundary Bay today were as quiet as my last visit a couple of days ago. I did try for a short while to get some Pipits, but they were not cooperating.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3614\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3614\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/PESA111.jpg\" alt=\"Pectoral Sandpiper\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/PESA111.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/PESA111-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/PESA111-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/PESA111-375x300.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-3614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pectoral Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There were a couple of small groups of Pectoral Sandpipers present with a lone Least Sandpiper. The action for the afternoon came courtesy of a Peregrine Falcon. Ever present in this area when the shorebirds are migrating,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3615\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3615\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3615\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/PEFA082.jpg\" alt=\"Peregrine Falcon\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/PEFA082.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/PEFA082-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/PEFA082-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/PEFA082-375x300.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-3615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peregrine Falcon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; this\u00a0Peregrine swooped in low along the beach\u00a0snagging one of the few Pectoral Sandpipers. On the topic of falcons,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3616\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3616\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MERL027.jpg\" alt=\"Merlin\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MERL027.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MERL027-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MERL027-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MERL027-375x300.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-3616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; this Merlin was perched in a tree as I arrived back at my car. A nice bonus shot to end the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tidal flats at Boundary Bay today were as quiet as my last visit a couple of days ago. I did try for a short while to get some Pipits, but they were not cooperating. There were a couple of small groups of Pectoral Sandpipers present with a lone Least Sandpiper. The action for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3613\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peregrine &#038; Merlin&#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":[177,33,4],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-merlin","tag-pectoral-sandpiper","tag-peregrine-falcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613","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=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}