{"id":5372,"date":"2019-06-30T20:41:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T04:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5372"},"modified":"2019-07-06T18:07:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T02:07:21","slug":"godwits-phalarope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=5372","title":{"rendered":"Godwits + Phalarope"},"content":{"rendered":"

On arriving to help out at Reifel<\/a> this afternoon there was not a large crowd of visitors, but that is normal for this time of year. The highlight from yesterday was some Marbled Godwits that had shown up and that I was hoping would return today.<\/p>\n

Initially I walked the inner trails waiting until later in the afternoon to check the outside when the tide would start to come in and push the shorebirds into the ponds. When I did eventually head out to the west field, there was not much going on. It was not until closer to 4 pm that things finally started to happen.<\/p>\n

\"Marbled
Marbled Godwit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eight Marbled Godwit flew in together.<\/p>\n

\"Marbled
Marbled Godwit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seeing one or two is usually a treat, but eight at one time is pretty uncommon around here.<\/p>\n

There was also a Wilson’s Phalarope among the birds showing up.<\/p>\n

\"Wilson's
Wilson’s Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At first it was resting in a clump of grass,<\/p>\n

\"Wilson's
Wilsons’s Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… but eventually got up and started foraging for food.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Godwits and Phalarope there were also Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, Long-billed Dowitcher, Short-billed Dowitcher, Least Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper and Western Sandpiper. A pretty good variety for this time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On arriving to help out at Reifel this afternoon there was not a large crowd of visitors, but that is normal for this time of year. The highlight from yesterday was some Marbled Godwits that had shown up and that I was hoping would return today. Initially I walked the inner trails waiting until later … Continue reading “Godwits + Phalarope”<\/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":[9,11],"tags":[235,51],"class_list":["post-5372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-marbled-godwit","tag-wilsons-phalarope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372","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=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5373,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions\/5373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}