{"id":51,"date":"2006-01-19T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/?p=51"},"modified":"2010-04-06T23:37:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T03:37:56","slug":"birding-in-piermont-marsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Birding in Piermont Marsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went out to Piermont Marsh today to do some bird photography.  A couple weeks ago I was on a ride through Talman Mountain State Park and ran into a fellow who had actually wandered out into the marsh to do some bird photography.  That sounded like fun, so today I put on my rubber roots and overalls and headed into the muck.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, I was walking on a 12 inch wide deer trail through 9 foot high reeds.  I kept my feet near the edges of the path to avoid stepping into the water and mud in the center of the trail, which was about a foot deep.  After 100 yards or so, the reeds gradually decreased in size until they were about 4 feet high.  In the end, I walked almost to the Hudson (though I couldn&#8217;t see it because of the reeds):<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"swamp_hike_06_01_19.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"582\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the view from the end:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"IMG_0524-01.jpg\" width=\"335\" height=\"513\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"IMG_0525-01.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"307\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the path back before the reeds before I got back into the 9-foot-high section:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"IMG_0526-01.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"520\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t see a single bird, but being out there was really something!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out to Piermont Marsh today to do some bird photography. A couple weeks ago I was on a ride through Talman Mountain State Park and ran into a fellow who had actually wandered out into the marsh to do some bird photography. That sounded like fun, so today I put on my rubber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}