{"id":1468,"date":"2006-05-08T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:44:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:44:18","slug":"more-views-from-sandy-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1468","title":{"rendered":"More views from Sandy Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Sandy-20Hook-24.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Sandy-20Hook-24.0-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I just can&#8217;t seem to get enough beach plum pics &#8211; the dunes at North Pond are covered with it. Poison ivy grows like mad out there too and is just starting to green up some in this view from below the hawk watch platform. In the near distance is an occupied osprey platform and behind that is the Verranzano Bridge which connects Brooklyn and the rest of NYC to Staten Island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Today was my volunteer day at the Sandy Hook Bird Observatory; lots of people around, but few birds from what I heard. Quite a few of the visitors today were new birders who I love to talk with &#8211; their enthusiasm is great and spring migration is a perfect time to pick up binoculars for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Somehow I forgot to bring my camera with me today, so I missed the chance to photograph the white-crowned sparrows and the hummingbirds that are coming to the center&#8217;s feeders. Chipping sparrows have been moving through my yard, but I haven&#8217;t seen a white-crowned yet. I&#8217;ve also had my hummingbird feeder out for a few weeks at home, but haven&#8217;t had any, yet. For some reason, I can&#8217;t seem to attract them until mid-July.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" height=\"275\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/IMG_0103-295x300.jpg\" width=\"293\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Here&#8217;s another shot of the Yellow Warbler from Friday. I heard one of these singing this afternoon, but he was hidden in the foliage of a hackberry tree.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just can&#8217;t seem to get enough beach plum pics &#8211; the dunes at North Pond are covered with it. Poison ivy grows like mad out there too and is just starting to green up some in this view from below the hawk watch platform. In the near distance is an occupied osprey platform and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1468\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More views from Sandy Hook<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468"}],"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=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}