{"id":4511,"date":"2016-08-27T21:35:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T04:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4511"},"modified":"2016-08-27T21:35:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T04:35:25","slug":"buff-breasted-sandpiper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=4511","title":{"rendered":"Buff-breasted Sandpiper"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been recent sightings of Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Iona recently, but that is not my preferred spot for photographing shorebirds. So when one was reported yesterday at Boundary Bay, I made my out there this afternoon a couple of hours before the high tide. On starting my walk west along the tidal flats\u00a0from 104 St. I noticed some activity right away fairly close to the dyke.<\/p>\n

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

Along with\u00a0Western and Least Sandpipers were some Semipalmated Plovers.<\/p>\n

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

I am used to seeing these little plovers further out on the flats,<\/p>\n

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

… but was certainly not complaining as they were being quite cooperative. While watching the Semipalmated Plovers,<\/p>\n

\"Buff-breasted
Buff-breasted Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… the main goal for the day was spotted a little further to the west.<\/p>\n

\"Buff-breasted
Buff-breasted Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Buff-breasted Sandpiper was moving around a fair bit,<\/p>\n

\"Buff-breasted
Buff-breasted Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… but did not seem to mind myself and another birder\/photographer tagging along. It has been a few years since I have had a chance like this with a Buff-breasted Sandpiper and it provided plenty of great photo ops.<\/p>\n

\"Sanderling\"
Sanderling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Odd birds out this afternoon,<\/p>\n

\"Sanderling\"
Sanderling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… was a small group of Sanderling. Not usually a spot I would expect to see them. All this was happening between 104 St. and the pilings, so I did not have to go very far to have a great afternoon photographing these shorebirds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There have been recent sightings of Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Iona recently, but that is not my preferred spot for photographing shorebirds. So when one was reported yesterday at Boundary Bay, I made my out there this afternoon a couple of hours before the high tide. On starting my walk west along the tidal flats\u00a0from 104 … Continue reading “Buff-breasted Sandpiper”<\/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":[46,233,44],"class_list":["post-4511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-boundary-bay","tag-buff-breasted-sandpiper","tag-sanderling","tag-semipalmated-plover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511","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=4511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4513,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions\/4513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}