{"id":280,"date":"2010-05-19T02:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:47:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:47:06","slug":"a-bird-in-the-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"A bird in the hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_3307.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_3307-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472787444325541426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">brings a quick smile to the face!<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_3303.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_3303-300x199.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472787187708177122\" \/><\/a>I wandered away for a bit on World Series Day to spend a couple minutes with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=487\">Tom while he banded birds<\/a>. This is his second spring at Sandy Hook and Saturday found his nets overflowing with migrants! Canadas, like this one, were everywhere&#8230; as were Magnolias and Wilson&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>I hung around taking photos and waiting for the rest of the crowd to amble away&#8230; finally Tom asked me if I&#8217;d like to hold a Magnolia that he&#8217;d just finished processing.<\/p>\n<p><i>Gasp!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I felt strangely hesitant and scared&#8230; I&#8217;d held birds before, hawks, even tiny hummingbirds, but only injured or window-strike dazed birds. These wide-awake and eager-to-go warblers frightened me with their flutterings and protests.<\/p>\n<p><i>Silly me&#8230; it&#8217;s just a little bird!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure my face was as giddy as this lady&#8217;s was&#8230; to feel those feathers in my hand, that tiny beating heart beneath my fingers and its trembling&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A sweet unexpected gift.<\/p>\n<p>: )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>brings a quick smile to the face! I wandered away for a bit on World Series Day to spend a couple minutes with Tom while he banded birds. This is his second spring at Sandy Hook and Saturday found his nets overflowing with migrants! Canadas, like this one, were everywhere&#8230; as were Magnolias and Wilson&#8217;s. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A bird in the hand<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,27,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}