{"id":721,"date":"2011-08-25T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T22:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=721"},"modified":"2011-08-25T17:12:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T21:12:56","slug":"evas-marsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=721","title":{"rendered":"Eva&#8217;s Marsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon we loaded the kayaks on the truck and headed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildlife.state.nh.us\/Wildlife\/WMAs\/WMA_Carpenters_Marsh.htm\">Eva&#8217;s Marsh WMA <\/a>in Hancock. We spend a few hours there and only explored the &#8220;front&#8221; (i.e. before the first beaver dam) of this ninety eight acre plot. I guess that we&#8217;ll have to go back again sometime.<\/p>\n<p>There were not many odes about on this cool afternoon with a high overcast&#8230; good light for photography! However,\u00a0 the water lilies and the eastern purple (or spotted) bladderwort were both in bloom and kept me entertained!<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=88]<\/p>\n<p>We also saw a numbers of animals&#8230; birds, frogs and painted turtles. (No turtle photos worth showing from this trip though.)<\/p>\n<p>I also spent quality time with a solitary sandpiper twice&#8230; going and coming.\u00a0 He\/she was much more concerned about the hunting than about the nearby human in the bright orange kayak. I was able to approach quite closely&#8230; good thing since all I had was my 300 mm lens!<\/p>\n<p>We also had fun watching a group of barn swallows&#8230; at one point there were five individuals in the tree in the photos below. We also saw a kingfisher and a raptor (probably a hawk) both at a distance so no photos this time&#8230; oh well!<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=87]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon we loaded the kayaks on the truck and headed to Eva&#8217;s Marsh WMA in Hancock. We spend a few hours there and only explored the &#8220;front&#8221; (i.e. before the first beaver dam) of this ninety eight acre plot. I guess that we&#8217;ll have to go back again sometime. There were not many odes [&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":[23,4,77,3],"tags":[154,16,42],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amphibians","category-birds","category-wildflowers","category-wildlife","tag-birds","tag-frogs","tag-wild-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}