{"id":3804,"date":"2015-07-25T20:57:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T04:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2015-07-25T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T07:02:10","slug":"ruff-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3804","title":{"rendered":"Ruff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Made my first trip out to Boundary Bay in quite some time this afternoon. A few interesting birds have been spotted of late: Bar-tailed Godwit, Ruddy Turnstone, American Golden Plover, Red Knot and Red-necked Phalarope. While I did not see any of these recent highlights,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3805\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3805\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RUFF009.jpg\" alt=\"Ruff\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RUFF009.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RUFF009-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RUFF009-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RUFF009-375x300.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-3805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; I did see the Ruff as it flew in right beside me while walking along the beach. This particular bird has been in the area for about a month now.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3806\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3806\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RUFF010.jpg\" alt=\"Ruff\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RUFF010.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RUFF010-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RUFF010-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RUFF010-375x300.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-3806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Ruff will show up in this area, this bird is an escapee from a study colony at Simon Fraser University. Apparently it is an in-between sized &#8216;faeder&#8217; male &#8211; a female mimic. Still an interesting bird to see and photograph.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of links to SFU:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/summit.sfu.ca\/item\/12743\" target=\"_blank\">Molecular Genetics Of Alternative Reproductive Morphs In Ruffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/sfunews\/stories\/2014\/ruff-courtship-a-matter-of-genes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ruff courtship a matter of genes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made my first trip out to Boundary Bay in quite some time this afternoon. A few interesting birds have been spotted of late: Bar-tailed Godwit, Ruddy Turnstone, American Golden Plover, Red Knot and Red-necked Phalarope. While I did not see any of these recent highlights, &#8230; I did see the Ruff as it flew in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3804\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ruff&#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":[179],"class_list":["post-3804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-ruff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804","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=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3807,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}