{"id":671,"date":"2008-09-21T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:18:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:18:18","slug":"fields-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Fields of gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/purpleandgold.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248277814439384050\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/purpleandgold-219x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The open fields glowing with goldenrod and the wooded trails of Tatum Park were the backdrop to Monmouth County Audubon&#8217;s first field trip of the season this morning. This late summer flower, together with the asters, keeps the honeybees in business now and the sight of it will be a welcome memory to anyone walking these same fields come the dark days of December.<\/p>\n<p>Our group of twelve enjoyed the restless voices of Robins and Catbirds in the woods, had a nice look at a Cooper&#8217;s Hawk gliding through a swarm of Tree Swallows high overhead and had a demonstration from our field trip leader of the explosive seed dispersal technique of jewelweed after a brief glimpse at a hummingbird feeding among its flowers.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/SNWuz6b8skI\/AAAAAAAACBM\/E9CKamMJeRQ\/s800-h\/tatumfawn.jpg\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248293147653222978\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/tatumfawn-300x185.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><br \/>We ended our walk puzzling over the identity of a quickly departing flycatcher while a fawn of the year emerged from the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">jewelweed and goldenrod at our feet. Two Common Yellowthroats and a Downy Woodpecker were found feeding in the same area. While there didn&#8217;t seem to be many birds present today, the warm sun and all that goldenrod made up for the lack of migrants. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The open fields glowing with goldenrod and the wooded trails of Tatum Park were the backdrop to Monmouth County Audubon&#8217;s first field trip of the season this morning. This late summer flower, together with the asters, keeps the honeybees in business now and the sight of it will be a welcome memory to anyone walking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=671\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fields of gold<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,27,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}