A mass of Western Sandpipers stops at Brunswick Point, Ladner BC to rest and feed, as they migrate from their Winter home in Mexico. In a few days they will leave again on their way to Alaska where they will breed, and raise their young. There were tens of thousands of them in the bay when I took this shot.

A group of Western Sandpipers are alarmed by a hunting Harrier Falcon, and take to the air to escape capture. Brunswick Point, Ladner, BC, Canada

Every spring, from mid April until early May, hundreds of thousands of shorebirds pause on the mudflats of the Fraser Delta and Boundary Bay to feed during their migration between wintering grounds in central America and their breeding grounds in Alaska. Of the many species that use the area, the Western Sandpiper and Dunlin are the most numerous. At peak times, flocks of more that 100,000 birds cover the mudflats or fly in undulating clouds over the foreshore. A BC Ferry sails past from the Tsawwassen Terminal.