{"id":3833,"date":"2015-09-09T21:01:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T05:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3833"},"modified":"2015-09-09T21:01:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T05:01:25","slug":"semipalmated-plover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3833","title":{"rendered":"Semipalmated Plover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Headed out to Boundary Bay for the rising tide on what was a beautiful afternoon. While walking west along the beach there was no action close to the dyke in the tidal pools. Once near the pylons I could see some movement further out on the sand. On getting a little closer it turned out to be a small group of Semipalmated Plovers. They were a little wary of me at first,<\/p>\n

\"Semipalmated
Semipalmated Plover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… but with a little patience they relaxed and moved towards me.<\/p>\n

\"Semipalmated
Semipalmated Plover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Closer is always better with these tiny plovers.<\/p>\n

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

There were also a couple of Western and Least Sandpipers mixed in with them.<\/p>\n

\"Semipalmated
Semipalmated Plover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Several\u00a0of the Semipalmated Plovers were more than cooperative\u00a0and provided good photo opportunities. While walking back towards the dyke with a couple of other birders,<\/p>\n

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

… a small group of Baird’s Sandpiper flew in and amongst them was a Semiplamated Sandpiper. The other birders had been watching the Black-bellied Plover flock and sighted Red Knot, Hudsonian Godwit and Bar-tailed Godwit. A good variety of birds on the bay today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Headed out to Boundary Bay for the rising tide on what was a beautiful afternoon. While walking west along the beach there was no action close to the dyke in the tidal pools. Once near the pylons I could see some movement further out on the sand. On getting a little closer it turned out … Continue reading “Semipalmated Plover”<\/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":[41,44,75,63],"class_list":["post-3833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-bairds-sandpiper","tag-semipalmated-plover","tag-semipalmated-sandpiper","tag-western-sandpiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833","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=3833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3839,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions\/3839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}