{"id":198,"date":"2011-01-27T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:04:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:04:45","slug":"strange-bedfellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Strange bedfellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/strangebedfellows.jpg\" style=\"clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"247\" width=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/strangebedfellows-300x185.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>All the little ponds here along the coast are frozen solid, mostly. Each has at least some open water and that&#8217;s where all the birds are congregating. Fletcher Lake between Ocean Grove and Bradley Beach had this Great Blue Heron (who looks scarily hungry for some Mallard flesh!), many Mallards, a couple white domestic ducks, a Pintail(!!!), a Wigeon and a Black-crowned night heron sleeping along the shoreline. <\/p>\n<p>A couple blocks away in Spring Lake we found a single Snow Goose feeding on the postcard-sized lawn of a beach house with a small group of Canada Geese.<\/p>\n<p>Strange.<\/p>\n<p>I find myself inclined to worry about wildlife when everything is frozen and snow-covered, but remind myself that wild things are good at surviving. They do much better than I ever could, for sure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the little ponds here along the coast are frozen solid, mostly. Each has at least some open water and that&#8217;s where all the birds are congregating. Fletcher Lake between Ocean Grove and Bradley Beach had this Great Blue Heron (who looks scarily hungry for some Mallard flesh!), many Mallards, a couple white domestic ducks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=198\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Strange bedfellows<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,28,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"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=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}