{"id":2406,"date":"2014-05-08T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2014-05-08T06:54:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T10:54:05","slug":"spotted-sandpiper-and-song-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2406","title":{"rendered":"Spotted Sandpiper and Song Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon, Joan and I headed down to the public beach on Gregg Lake. Joan was intending to do a little beach maintenance and I was intending to photograph the odonate nymphs she would disturb while raking the beach.<\/p>\n<p>Our plans were nicely disrupted by the sight of a small bird foraging along the waters edge. The bird turned out to be a spotted sandpiper and it was clearly feasting on dragonfly nymphs. I spent about an hour and a half observing and photographing this bird&#8230; moving ever closer as time progressed. I was so engrossed, that I did not even notice Joan leave for her meeting in town!<\/p>\n<p>Eventually the traffic on the road, specifically a jogger, caused the bird to take off. I finally found the bird again out on &#8220;the point&#8221;, but figuring I had some good photos already and did not pursue it again.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I headed off to town to run a couple of errands. When I finished, I drove my Powder Mill Pond &#8220;loop&#8221;. There was lots of song bird activity at my various stops. However, I was only able to make photographs of the song sparrows in on place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=260 autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon, Joan and I headed down to the public beach on Gregg Lake. Joan was intending to do a little beach maintenance and I was intending to photograph the odonate nymphs she would disturb while raking the beach. Our plans were nicely disrupted by the sight of a small bird foraging along the waters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,67,92],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-early-spring","category-monadnock-region","tag-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}