{"id":524,"date":"2013-07-28T06:13:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T06:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/?page_id=524"},"modified":"2013-07-28T06:13:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T06:13:16","slug":"great-white-egret-in-raritan-bay-waterfront-park","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/sample-page\/morgan-critters\/great-white-egret-in-raritan-bay-waterfront-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Great White Egret in Raritan Bay Waterfront Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Morgan Moments \u2013 Great White Egret in Raritan Bay Waterfront Park<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_514\" style=\"width: 941px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Egret-Flying.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-514\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-514\" alt=\"Great White Egret in Flight\" src=\"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Egret-Flying.jpg\" width=\"931\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Egret-Flying.jpg 931w, https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Egret-Flying-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Egret-Flying-624x424.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great White Egret in Flight<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">The day after Hurricane Irene blasted through Morgan in August 2011 was one of the most beautiful days that I have ever seen there.\u00a0 Go figure.\u00a0 Clear skies, pleasant temperature, low humidity. On that morning, I took the opportunity to go to the Morgan side of the Raritan Bay Waterfront Park to see how well it fared.\u00a0 Well, it fared pretty well (unlike a year later when Sandy blasted through).\u00a0 In addition to the usual sea gulls, I saw what is now my favorite Raritan Bay bird, a Great White Egret \u2013 at least that is what my untrained eye thinks it was.\u00a0 This one was walking along the marsh occasionally poking its head into the water for a little fish then decided to go get a better view.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_513\" style=\"width: 941px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Egret-in-Water.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-513\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-513\" alt=\"Great White Egret Searching for a Fish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Egret-in-Water.jpg\" width=\"931\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Egret-in-Water.jpg 931w, https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Egret-in-Water-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Egret-in-Water-624x424.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great White Egret Searching for a Fish<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Click <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" title=\"Birds in Raritan Bay Waterfront Park\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shltrip.com\/Raritan_Bay_Waterfront.html\" target=\"_blank\">here to see many more birds in Raritan Bay Waterfront Park<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Originally posted on September 7, 2011.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Moments \u2013 Great White Egret in Raritan Bay Waterfront Park The day after Hurricane Irene blasted through Morgan in August 2011 was one of the most beautiful days that I have ever seen there.\u00a0 Go figure.\u00a0 Clear skies, pleasant temperature, low humidity. On that morning, I took the opportunity to go to the Morgan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":511,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-524","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/524\/revisions\/526"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}