{"id":237,"date":"2011-04-27T23:35:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T23:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2011-04-27T23:39:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T23:39:39","slug":"sandy-hook-with-a-side-of-sunburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Hook with a side of sunburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent about 7 hours at the Hook on Tuesday, much of it on the hawk watch platform. I also forgot to put sun block on my hands, which now look like lobster claws. We saw lots of good birds, including an Osprey who had landed on the nest with a fish (this nest was on the building at the Garden):<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Osprey in nest at Sandy Hook, 4\/26\/11\" href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/PCHICK66\/SandyHook42611#5600405362535368754\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pie-img\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_r5gUAeGmzKE\/TbijAUgdCDI\/AAAAAAAAMbM\/GG9W3QoC4Iw\/P1090165.JPG?imgmax=288\" alt=\"Osprey in nest at Sandy Hook, 4\/26\/11\" width=\"288\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were a lot of Turkey Vultures around and a few Egrets:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Turkey Vulture at the hawk watch\" href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/PCHICK66\/SandyHook42611#5600405542466599346\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pie-img\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_r5gUAeGmzKE\/TbijKyzZubI\/AAAAAAAAMbo\/kHWIUKQijGs\/s160-c\/P1090177.JPG\" alt=\"Turkey Vulture at the hawk watch\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Great Egret passing the hawk watch platform\" href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/PCHICK66\/SandyHook42611#5600405503710390722\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pie-img\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_r5gUAeGmzKE\/TbijIibM6cI\/AAAAAAAAMbg\/Uwh-bBx0vUQ\/s160-c\/P1090175.JPG\" alt=\"Great Egret passing the hawk watch platform\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/PCHICK66\/SandyHook42611#5600405523081162786\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pie-img\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_r5gUAeGmzKE\/TbijJqljcCI\/AAAAAAAAMbk\/XbMSakohwcI\/s160-c\/P1090176.JPG\" alt=\"P1090176.JPG\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a Barn Swallow chillin&#8217; on a wire:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cute Barn Swallow\" href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/PCHICK66\/SandyHook42611#5600405444330864242\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pie-img\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_r5gUAeGmzKE\/TbijFFOBPnI\/AAAAAAAAMbY\/I9JlnSQiCVM\/P1090171.JPG?imgmax=288\" alt=\"Cute Barn Swallow\" width=\"288\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a cute White-breasted Nuthatch who sat close to us in a tree at the hawk watch:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"White-breasted Nuthatch at the hawk watch\" href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/PCHICK66\/SandyHook42611#5600405587083224002\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pie-img\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_r5gUAeGmzKE\/TbijNZA1Y8I\/AAAAAAAAMbw\/lhUEgZWavRU\/P1090179.JPG?imgmax=288\" alt=\"White-breasted Nuthatch at the hawk watch\" width=\"288\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was a great day, and I tallied 77 species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent about 7 hours at the Hook on Tuesday, much of it on the hawk watch platform. I also forgot to put sun block on my hands, which now look like lobster claws. We saw lots of good birds, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/?p=237\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}