{"id":343,"date":"2010-01-20T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:08:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:08:52","slug":"moments-barnegat-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Moments: Barnegat Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Once past the terror of the jetty rocks, a rush of wind and an expanse of space… and ducks.<\/p>\n

Birders caught in a quandry about the identity of the long-tailed (or are they pin-tailed?) ducks paddling and diving along the inlet at Old Barney’s feet.<\/p>\n

(A good enough reason for me to continue calling them oldsquaw… politically incorrect or no…)<\/p>\n

The oddly painted costume of the harlequin duck is distinct and well worth the hours long drive to see them.<\/p>\n

Random teeterings and dawdlings of dunlin, turnstone and purple sandpiper.<\/p>\n

Tears that come at the memory of another visit here, a lifetime ago. I turn around confounded by the wall of wind… heedless of how fast and far I’ve come.<\/p>\n

I try to imagine this place in summer, as most would know it… waves glitter a thousand small suns, the long rhythm of the surf, a herring gull’s call like a rusty pulley, the clatter and crunch of periwinkles, scallops and skate egg casings, the sight of a black skimmer slitting the seam between two worlds.<\/p>\n

– – – – – – – – – – –<\/p>\n

See any good birds yourself this weekend?<\/p>\n

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Oh… and I ran into Beth out ogling the harlequins! Small world…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once past the terror of the jetty rocks, a rush of wind and an expanse of space… and ducks. Birders caught in a quandry about the identity of the long-tailed (or are they pin-tailed?) ducks paddling and diving along the inlet at Old Barney’s feet. (A good enough reason for me to continue calling them … Continue reading Moments: Barnegat Light<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,2,25,8,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}