{"id":532,"date":"2009-03-16T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=532"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:13:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:13:23","slug":"jetty-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Jetty treats"},"content":{"rendered":"
I met MevetS<\/a> (fellow NJ Audubon volunteer) and his photography group this morning at Barnegat Light. Aside from some equipment envy on my part, it didn’t feel much different than any other bird walk.
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<\/a>Bird geeks.
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<\/a>Camera geek<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Not much difference, huh?<\/p>\n

<\/span>\"\"<\/a>Other than the lighthouse, the main draw at Barnegat Light is the sea ducks. The problem is the birds like to hang out way at the end of this jetty along the inlet. Scary stuff! If you haven’t already seen the link at Patrick’s blog<\/a>, have a look at this story<\/a> of a local birder who recently fell and was trapped out there in his quest for pics of the eiders that frequent the inlet.
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\"\"<\/a>Most people walk the jetty like it’s nothing, but I’m normally a trembling mess. I was ready to refuse outright today and walk along the sand, but went ahead anyway and found it okay. Maybe cause the rocks were dry and it wasn’t freezing cold. The birds make the walk worth it… nestled among the rocks are pretty harlequins and the inlet offered close looks at common loons in breeding plumage and courting oldsquaw.
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\"\"<\/a>Way out at the very tip, the jetty boulders were squirming with purple sandpipers… little dark birds that I like nearly as much as sanderlings.<\/p>\n

Have a look at Steve’s pics<\/a> from today… wow. (Camera envy.) <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I met MevetS (fellow NJ Audubon volunteer) and his photography group this morning at Barnegat Light. Aside from some equipment envy on my part, it didn’t feel much different than any other bird walk. Bird geeks. Camera geek \ud83d\ude09 Not much difference, huh? Other than the lighthouse, the main draw at Barnegat Light is the … Continue reading Jetty treats<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2648,"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\/532"}],"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=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}