{"id":8969,"date":"2014-07-19T03:40:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T10:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=8969"},"modified":"2014-07-18T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T03:46:11","slug":"shorebirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/19\/shorebirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorebirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shorebirding at Brigantine was fun this afternoon &#8212; as always. The rarity highlight was certainly the alternate-plumaged <strong>Hudsonian godwit<\/strong> at the end of the day (too far for pictures), but I was just as happy to see my first <strong>western sandpipers<\/strong> for the fall, a dozen birds scattered among the <strong>semipalmated <\/strong>and<strong> least sandpipers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"western sandpiper by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/14665215436\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3873\/14665215436_1607815a33_z.jpg\" alt=\"western sandpiper\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who could fail to love these beautiful Arctic wanderers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shorebirding at Brigantine was fun this afternoon &#8212; as always. The rarity highlight was certainly the alternate-plumaged Hudsonian godwit at the end of the day (too far for pictures), but I was just as happy to see my first western sandpipers for the fall, a dozen birds scattered among the semipalmated and least sandpipers. &nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/19\/shorebirds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shorebirds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1,52,64,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8970,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions\/8970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}