{"id":416,"date":"2009-08-29T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:10:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:10:43","slug":"skywatch-friday-jamaica-bay-birders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday: Jamaica Bay Birders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jamaicabaybirders.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jamaicabaybirders-300x205.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375201594056865458\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is one of the most important urban wildlife refuges in the US and is renowned as a prime birding spot where thousands of water, land and shorebirds stop during migration, with more than 325 species having been recorded in the past 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Our group of ten or so, minus those couple who were afraid of a little rain (Hi Patrick!  Hi John!), grew and mingled and shrank throughout the day.  This pic was taken early, before we were very muddied and before the storm clouds had passed us by.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a> for more skywatch posts.  <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is one of the most important urban wildlife refuges in the US and is renowned as a prime birding spot where thousands of water, land and shorebirds stop during migration, with more than 325 species having been recorded in the past 25 years. Our group of ten or so, minus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skywatch Friday: Jamaica Bay Birders<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}