{"id":154,"date":"2011-06-03T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:01:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:01:27","slug":"plovers-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Plovers, now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m counting on you all not getting too tired of these fuzzy snapshots of Piping Plovers…<\/p>\n

; )<\/p>\n

I’ve been “occasionally” volunteering as a plover warden at Seven President’s Park in Long Branch for a little over a month now… meaning I show up there when the mood strikes me and walk the wrack line and look officious with my badge and binoculars and big camera lens…<\/p>\n

: )<\/p>\n

Until this past weekend, I was monitoring nothing beyond a space set aside<\/i> for the hope of nesting Piping Plovers<\/i>. A pair had made an attempt in late April, but hadn’t been seen since… I kept showing up anyway when I needed an ocean fix, but really had started to wonder if my time there made any sense.<\/p>\n

These birds are notoriously hard to see and survive mostly by being invisible, so I kept telling myself that I just wasn’t looking hard enough, you know?<\/p>\n

The Least Terns showed up and they were enough of a distraction for a while that I was able to feel like my presence there was important enough. But…<\/p>\n

I heard just today that there are two nesting pairs with eggs(!) and those nests have been protected with exclosures…<\/p>\n

: )<\/p>\n

So now the serious business begins… where’s my whistle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m counting on you all not getting too tired of these fuzzy snapshots of Piping Plovers… ; ) I’ve been “occasionally” volunteering as a plover warden at Seven President’s Park in Long Branch for a little over a month now… meaning I show up there when the mood strikes me and walk the wrack line … Continue reading Plovers, now<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,27,4,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"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=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}