{"id":695,"date":"2008-08-25T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=695"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:19:00","slug":"a-new-bird-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"A new bird list!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Circumstances beyond my control (a husband with a mind of his own) have necessitated the start of a new list: birds seen by boat. Not just any boat, either&#8230; THE boat&#8230; our boat, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>(Men and their toys!)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/osprey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238320007516932962\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/osprey-300x194.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">An osprey scared from its nest just when I thought I finally had the perfect photo opportunity &#8211; a nest at eye level, just outside of the river channel. I love all the found stuff osprey include in their nests. Also interesting is the rope ladder up to the nest&#8230; I guess somebody bands these guys.<br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/noclue.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238319890100300594\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/noclue-300x215.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I have no idea what this bird is. I&#8217;d thought it was a tern, but its back is reddish. Help anyone?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/treeoegrets.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238319738354833298\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/treeoegrets-213x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">A tree full of great egrets, waiting out the tide, I guess. I know these pictures are awful, but I was too scared of having to swim to shore to bring the good lens. (The boat is something of a fixer-upper.)<br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/cloudofgulls.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238319537572285794\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/cloudofgulls-300x185.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Storm clouds full of gulls&#8230; who cares what kind; they&#8217;re just gulls!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Conversation following inaugural boat tour of the river:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So&#8230; are you happy with it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Um&#8230; I didn&#8217;t want a boat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, but&#8230; are you happy with it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Um&#8230; it&#8217;s a boat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(I might get to see some good birds though.)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circumstances beyond my control (a husband with a mind of his own) have necessitated the start of a new list: birds seen by boat. Not just any boat, either&#8230; THE boat&#8230; our boat, apparently. (Men and their toys!) \ud83d\ude09An osprey scared from its nest just when I thought I finally had the perfect photo opportunity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=695\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new bird list!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,27,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695"}],"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=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}