{"id":4957,"date":"2016-02-10T19:51:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T00:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=4957"},"modified":"2016-02-10T19:51:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T00:51:32","slug":"snowy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=4957","title":{"rendered":"Snowy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/snowy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4958\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4958 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/snowy-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"snowy\" width=\"508\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/snowy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/snowy.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a>Considering all the time I&#8217;ve spent in Florida the last couple years, you&#8217;d think I&#8217;d have seen a snowy plover by now, right? Well, I FINALLY got my life snowy at the end of last year when we spent Christmastime at Cape San Blas on the Gulf Coast of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Cape San Blas is one of my favorite places on the &#8220;forgotten coast&#8221; &#8211; not too many people, no condos or hotels, and a 30 minute drive to a decent restaurant or grocery store. My kind of place!<\/p>\n<p>I very nearly stumbled over this bird! It was so totally camouflaged in its winter plumage (and so tame!) that, were it not for its movement, I never would have seen it. I wonder how many others I&#8217;ve stumbled past without ever seeing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You might notice in my photo that the bird is banded &#8211; only one leg is visible &#8211; I found out that this bird is a regular winter resident at St. Joseph&#8217;s State Park on Cape San Blas, but that it breeds elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Snowies are sweet birds &#8211; small and plain compared to the piping plovers I know so well &#8211; but pretty similar in their habits. And like other Florida birds, exceptionally tame. I wonder why that is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering all the time I&#8217;ve spent in Florida the last couple years, you&#8217;d think I&#8217;d have seen a snowy plover by now, right? Well, I FINALLY got my life snowy at the end of last year when we spent Christmastime at Cape San Blas on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Cape San Blas is one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=4957\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snowy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/4957"}],"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=4957"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4964,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}