{"id":1111,"date":"2007-04-23T01:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:34:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:34:29","slug":"goofing-off-at-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1111","title":{"rendered":"Goofing off at the beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/IMG_2089-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056416062761660402\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/IMG_2089-copy-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I took a short break this afternoon from pond-cleaning duty to visit Sandy Hook and the migration watch site. It was a beautiful day and the Hook was packed with people desperate for time outdoors. There were cyclers and bikers, rollerbladers and windsurfers, tourists and birders. Lots of birders. A Hooded Warbler was found yesterday and I thought I might get a peak at it, but no luck. There were a nice number of hawks moving today, I thought. Plenty of airplanes to look at when nothing else is going by.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of people hang out at the hawk watch to keep the counter company and to see what\u2019s happening by. I saw a few broadwings, a red shoulder or two, and lots of turkey vultures. They tend to fly out a certain<a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/IMG_2088-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056415895257935842\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/IMG_2088-copy-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> distance over the bay and then stall while deciding what to do, as they\u2019re hesitant to cross the open water ahead of them. Most circle back and fly north via the bayshore. The dune vegetation is still very brown, but soon the beach plums will be blooming \u2013 can\u2019t wait to see them all frothy white and humming with bees!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a short break this afternoon from pond-cleaning duty to visit Sandy Hook and the migration watch site. It was a beautiful day and the Hook was packed with people desperate for time outdoors. There were cyclers and bikers, rollerbladers and windsurfers, tourists and birders. Lots of birders. A Hooded Warbler was found yesterday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1111\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goofing off at the beach<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}