{"id":263,"date":"2011-07-04T16:37:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T16:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2011-07-04T16:38:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T16:38:34","slug":"shelter-and-gardiners-islands-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Shelter and Gardiner’s Islands, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"

On July 2 & 3, Bob and I went out on his sister’s boat in East Hampton. It’s a gorgeous 58-foot yacht. We anchored over at Shelter Island for about 4 hours, where I watched at least one pair of probable Bank Swallows fly in and out of the nest holes of these sandy cliffs and watched an Osprey pair flying around:<\/p>\n

\"Anchored<\/a>\"Osprey<\/a><\/p>\n

We had a friendly Mute Swan scavenging for food by us:<\/p>\n

\"Our<\/a><\/p>\n

Later in the afternoon, we drove out toward a private island called Gardiner’s Island:<\/p>\n

\"Approaching<\/a>\"Windmill<\/a><\/p>\n

I have never seen baby Great Black-backed Gulls before, and there was a whole colony nesting here. I’d say we saw 75 to 100 gulls:<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a>\"There<\/a>\"Two<\/a>\"Adult<\/a><\/p>\n

There were also about 300 to 400 Double-crested Cormorants roosting in the trees and flying in toward the island, as well as many Ospreys. Check out the platform next to the windmill:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Here we are back in the marina with a friendly local egret:<\/p>\n

\"Great<\/a><\/p>\n

It was a gorgeous day! (Click any photo to enlarge it and\/or see full album.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On July 2 & 3, Bob and I went out on his sister’s boat in East Hampton. It’s a gorgeous 58-foot yacht. We anchored over at Shelter Island for about 4 hours, where I watched at least one pair of … Continue reading →<\/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-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","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=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}