{"id":14330,"date":"2018-05-08T12:43:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T17:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14330"},"modified":"2018-05-14T14:32:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T19:32:35","slug":"solitary-sandpiper-tringa-solitaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14330","title":{"rendered":"Solitary Sandpiper (<em>Tringa solitaria<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14332\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180508_152990.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14332\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180508_152990-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14332\" data-wp-pid=\"14332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180508_152990-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180508_152990-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180508_152990-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180508_152990-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180508_152990-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180508_152990.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solitary Sandpiper (<em>Tringa solitaria<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I took a little walk at lunch time today, around my building and then into the woods. There is a tree that fell across the stream a year and a half ago and I&#8217;m still able to get across on that. One of these days it&#8217;s going to collapse under me, but so far, it&#8217;s been alright. There are a few drainage ponds on the upper part of the property and they have water in them now, even though our April was dryer than normal. I saw a bird across the pond and as if flew off I was able to get two pictures of it. Judging by its size and shape and with only a very brief glance at it, I had thought it was a killdeer (<em>Charadrius vociferus<\/em>). Once I saw the picture, though, I knew that was wrong. After a little searching, I decided it was a solitary sandpiper (<em>Tringa solitaria<\/em>), migrating to its summer breeding grounds in the far north (entirely north of the USA\/Canada border). As usual when it comes to identifying birds, I checked with George to see if he thought I was right. He did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a little walk at lunch time today, around my building and then into the woods. There is a tree that fell across the stream a year and a half ago and I&#8217;m still able to get across on that. One of these days it&#8217;s going to collapse under me, but so far, it&#8217;s &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14330\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[61,653,652,651],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14334,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330\/revisions\/14334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}