Whimbrels: it's all about them.

Typical.  You're taking a picture of a shiny piece of beach art, and then a pesky shorebird strolls into the frame.

Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus): solitary forager, noted camera hog.

Quickly turns around, making sure you catch its good side.

Update From KaHolly:   More about whimbrels, and more typical interactions with humans.

Plenty of pintails.

Boundary Bay is a good place to go if you want to see Northern Pintails.  Especially in fall.  You'll see lots.

Lots of pintails.

Lots and lots of pintails.

Enough to blanket a generously-sized volcano.

That's a lot of pintails.

Man & mountain.

Inukshuk and Mount Baker.

Encountered on the north shore of Boundary Bay, BC, while scanning the madding crowd for rare shorebirds.  (Thanks, stone artist.)

More to come.

Lollygaggling.

Canada Geese are loitering in a nearby schoolyard, unaware that their bucolic late-summer existence is about to be shrilly disrupted.

Poor, uninformed anseriformes, about to be beset by tiny, pinball humans,

who won't be in cages, like those big ones over there.  The Canadas will flee.

But then, a month later, white-feathered goose cousins will arrive, en masse, and through biological warfare, reclaim the schoolyard for geese.