{"id":799,"date":"2011-07-05T20:26:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T03:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=799"},"modified":"2011-12-06T00:09:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T08:09:26","slug":"black-oystercatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"Black Oystercatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"

The trails were quiet this morning at Reifel, so in the afternoon I headed down to the Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway. The Black Oystercatcher is a shore bird that nests in the area and there should be juveniles by now. On arriving I could hear them and on checking the shoreline noticed several adults. There was lots of interaction going on, posturing and chasing each other. It was not until I worked my way further down that I found what I was looking for.<\/p>\n

\"Black
Black Oystercatcher Juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On spotting the juvenile I circled around and came in from the other side. I did not want to put myself between the juvenile and the adults.<\/p>\n

\"Black
Black Oystercatcher Juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was the only juvenile I could see.<\/p>\n

\"Black
Black Oystercatcher Juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was pretty much wandering around on its own.<\/p>\n

\"Black
Black Oystercatcher Juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While the adults were around,<\/p>\n

\"Black
Black Oystercatcher Adult<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… they seemed preoccupied with the other adult Oystercatchers. This was unfortunate as it would have been nice to get some interaction between the juvenile and adult(s). I left when the juvenile tucked itself away amongst the rocks for a rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The trails were quiet this morning at Reifel, so in the afternoon I headed down to the Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway. The Black Oystercatcher is a shore bird that nests in the area and there should be juveniles by now. On arriving I could hear them and on checking the shoreline noticed several adults. There was … Continue reading “Black Oystercatcher”<\/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":[9,13],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-tsawwassen-ferry-causeway","tag-black-oystercatcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","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=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}