{"id":155057,"date":"2015-04-08T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=1baaf242e2a5720169066256873781a3"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:52:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:52:59","slug":"purple-sandpiper-at-ponce-inlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/purple-sandpiper-at-ponce-inlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Sandpiper at Ponce Inlet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two of my aunts and uncles are in town staying with my parents, and so we all decided to go to the beach for a couple hours this morning.<\/p>\n

It was pretty fun hanging out with my daughter and extended family, and of course, I kept an eye on the birds.<\/p>\n

I didn’t see much that was unusual, though I did see about 30 Barn Swallows flying in from the ocean–nice to see them returning.<\/p>\n

The biggest highlight, though, was seeing a Purple Sandpiper at the jetty. At least one seems to turn up here every winter, so I always hope to see one when I visit.<\/p>\n

This morning I was not disappointed. These are by far my best photos of this beautiful little bird.<\/p>\n

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Purple Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Purple Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Purple Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Purple Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Purple Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Two of my aunts and uncles are in town staying with my parents, and so we all decided to go to the beach for a couple hours this morning. It was pretty fun hanging out with my daughter and extended family, and of course, I kept an eye on the birds. I didn’t see much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2195980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/03-21\/i-8sqp3VR\/0\/L\/_MG_8547-L.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2316,2465],"class_list":["post-155057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-purple-sandpiper","tag-scott-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155057","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2195980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}