{"id":1094495,"date":"2018-08-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=8a5103681c61fc1cc7d52cd739176a71"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:34:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:34:08","slug":"shorebird-clock-right-tide-and-right-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/shorebird-clock-right-tide-and-right-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorebird Clock = Right Tide And Right Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend when I checked visited the Westbrook shoreline early in the morning.<\/p>\n

Right from the start I knew it was the right tide and right time for seeing shorebirds.<\/p>\n

As I started to walk up the beach a yellowlegs seemed to be leading the way.<\/p>\n

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This may not look like the ideal place to go surfing at low tide but for the shorebirds it was breakfast time.<\/p>\n

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There were plenty of Ruddy Turnstones like this one were around.<\/p>\n

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AsOystercatchers picked through selections at the raw bar ….<\/p>\n

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the Semipalmated Plovers just behind them had their own idea of what looked good on the daily menu. There were lots of Black-bellied Plovers and peeps around as well.<\/p>\n

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There was a strip of beach that was perpendicular to the shoreline making it convenient to walk out further during low tide.<\/p>\n

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There were lots of terns active along the sides of it including Least Terns which had eluded me in prior weeks.What a difference the tide makes.<\/p>\n

Once high tide arrived there were plenty of people and dogs but the shorebirds were gone and you would never know that just a just a couple of hours before it was a bird bonanza.<\/p>\n

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Last weekend when I checked visited the Westbrook shoreline early in the morning. Right from the start I knew it was the right tide and right time for seeing shorebirds. As I started to walk up the beach a yellowlegs seemed to be leading the way.   This may not look like the ideal place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1904,"featured_media":2196650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-K-cxXtIRTbM\/V6__uJ_pCLI\/AAAAAAAAI5w\/xFlTS1tQ8cMYNy7rjqgO8AU7umUQmj60wCLcB\/s640\/IMG_0309%2B%2528800x626%2529.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1079,2104,1674,2068,1680,1686],"class_list":["post-1094495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-black-bellied-plover","tag-least-tern","tag-oystercatcher","tag-rook","tag-ruddy-turnstone","tag-semipalmated-plover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}