{"id":9263,"date":"2014-09-29T04:27:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T11:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2014-09-29T05:35:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T12:35:43","slug":"cape-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/29\/cape-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we arrived a day late for the whiskered tern\u00a0and we left\u00a0a day early for the zone-tailed hawk: but <a href=\"http:\/\/wingsbirds.com\/leaders\/rick-wright\/\">my latest tour<\/a> had a great time at Cape May last week all the same. A few photos:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Birding birders Cape May by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/15192219459\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3838\/15192219459_eb9e9b83b7_z.jpg\" alt=\"Birding birders Cape May\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The view from the hotel balcony at dawn.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Birding birders Cape May by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/15355956966\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3924\/15355956966_2b7efac5bc_z.jpg\" alt=\"Birding birders Cape May\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunrise over the beach.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Birding birders Cape May by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/15192462617\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2941\/15192462617_1db7249d7c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Birding birders Cape May\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some autumn color in Atlantic County.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Birding birders Cape May by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/15192461157\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3891\/15192461157_19eb617818_z.jpg\" alt=\"Birding birders Cape May\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An eastern ribbon snake in the Meadows (or some <em>Thamnophis<\/em> or another).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Brown Thrasher by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/15192284040\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2950\/15192284040_a0086f45e1_z.jpg\" alt=\"Brown Thrasher\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of many, many, many brown thrashers at Higbee Beach.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Birding birders Cape May by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/15355962836\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3859\/15355962836_63d06696a4_z.jpg\" alt=\"Birding birders Cape May\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you get a chance to bird with this genial gang, do it!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Birding birders Cape May by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/15378959305\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2948\/15378959305_424a4b2258_z.jpg\" alt=\"Birding birders Cape May\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The beach scene across from our hotel.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Birding birders Cape May by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/15192228859\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3865\/15192228859_e1df7f5728_z.jpg\" alt=\"Birding birders Cape May\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Black skimmers and a nice variety of gulls and terns, there for the picking just steps from our door.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Birding birders Cape May by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/15378664522\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2946\/15378664522_0917072ac0_z.jpg\" alt=\"Birding birders Cape May\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A great cormorant joins its smaller cousins on the concrete ship.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Birding birders Cape May by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/15192389118\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3898\/15192389118_ddffa20fe5_z.jpg\" alt=\"Birding birders Cape May\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we arrived a day late for the whiskered tern\u00a0and we left\u00a0a day early for the zone-tailed hawk: but my latest tour had a great time at Cape May last week all the same. A few photos: The view from the hotel balcony at dawn. Sunrise over the beach. Some autumn color in Atlantic County. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/29\/cape-may\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cape May&#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":[63,52,64,2],"tags":[278,275,276,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263"}],"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=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9267,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions\/9267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}