{"id":234,"date":"2010-09-24T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:05:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:05:54","slug":"whod-have-guessed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Who’d have guessed it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’d intended to post a “bad bird photo of the week” tonight, but this is not it.<\/p>\n

Stop laughing. I can hear you, you know.<\/i><\/p>\n

; )<\/p>\n

I was at Cape May this past weekend and between the swarms of monarchs and tree swallows, which I mean to get to talking about eventually, there was an hour or so spent puzzling over the ducks at Lighthouse Pond in Cape May Point State Park.<\/p>\n

I love ducks, but this time of year is awful for trying to identify any of them. There’s juveniles and females and males in eclipse plumage<\/a>… basically meaning that no duck looks the way we expect them to… there’s hints to their identity, of course, but puzzling one’s way through bill and eye color is time-consuming and generally against the way I like to enjoy birds.<\/p>\n

This bird was a puzzle we eventually gave up on… we’d called it a teal for a while… eventually settling on a Cinnamon Teal, even though we *knew* that wasn’t right…<\/p>\n

Today there was this<\/a> from The View at the Cape identifying this duck as a Northern Pintail. We’d never guessed that, I don’t think… some weird Wigeon, maybe, but a Pintail?<\/p>\n

Of course it’s obvious to me now that I know what it is…<\/i><\/p>\n

: )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d intended to post a “bad bird photo of the week” tonight, but this is not it. Stop laughing. I can hear you, you know. ; ) I was at Cape May this past weekend and between the swarms of monarchs and tree swallows, which I mean to get to talking about eventually, there was … Continue reading Who’d have guessed it?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"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=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}