{"id":4490,"date":"2016-08-19T21:42:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2016-08-20T01:01:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T08:01:38","slug":"western-sandpiper-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4490","title":{"rendered":"Western Sandpiper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late this afternoon I headed out to Boundary Bay again for the rising tide. Initially there were small groups of Baird&#8217;s, Least and Western Sandpipers. As the tide started making its way inward things picked up with hundreds of Western and some Black-bellied Plovers. While there were lots more birds than my last walk here, I was just not getting them where I preferred for photos on the\u00a0tidal flats. With so many of them bombing around, I decided to try my hand at some flight shots before calling it a day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4489\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4489\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4489\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WESA078.jpg\" alt=\"Western Sandpiper\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WESA078.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WESA078-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WESA078-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Western Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Definitely a challenge tracking these fast moving small shorebirds, but I did manage this keeper of a Western Sandpiper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late this afternoon I headed out to Boundary Bay again for the rising tide. Initially there were small groups of Baird&#8217;s, Least and Western Sandpipers. As the tide started making its way inward things picked up with hundreds of Western and some Black-bellied Plovers. While there were lots more birds than my last walk here, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Western Sandpiper&#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":[63],"class_list":["post-4490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-western-sandpiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490","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=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4492,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions\/4492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}