{"id":3026,"date":"2023-06-07T07:46:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T12:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2023-06-07T07:46:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T12:46:48","slug":"gravel-road-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2023\/06\/07\/gravel-road-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravel Road Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmousedown=\"alert('Sorry ... you will need to contact me if you wish to use this photo')\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/photosbydennis\/image\/173708869\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While out-n-about in search of other Raptors I stumbled upon what I later found out were a pair of Marbled Godwits.<br \/>\nTheir long legs and bills certainly indicate shorebirds in my mind\u2026would only have expected to see them next to a shallow pond or mud flats in search of food. <\/p>\n<p>From what I now understand they can also be found around hay fields and grasslands where they nest.<\/p>\n<p>The field and gravel road action most likely would have been a mating display.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always interesting to stumble upon and learn something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While out-n-about in search of other Raptors I stumbled upon what I later found out were a pair of Marbled Godwits. Their long legs and bills certainly indicate shorebirds in my mind\u2026would only have expected to see them next to a shallow pond or mud flats in search of food. From what I now understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-3026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorebirds","tag-marbled-godwits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}