{"id":8005,"date":"2011-07-31T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=8005"},"modified":"2011-07-30T20:20:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T00:20:15","slug":"alaska-potters-marsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/8005","title":{"rendered":"Alaska: Potter&#8217;s Marsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 11th we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfg.alaska.gov\/index.cfm?adfg=viewinglocations.pottermarsh\">Potter&#8217;s Marsh<\/a>, part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfg.alaska.gov\/index.cfm?adfg=anchoragecoastal.main\">Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge<\/a>. It is a birder&#8217;s paradise, and although I am not a birder, I enjoyed using my new zoom lens to see birds up close.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, it was another grey day, but it was fun regardless.<\/p>\n<p>First, some general scenery:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5978439446\/\" title=\"Potters_Marsh_07_11_105 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6149\/5978439446_a6e0d71806.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Potters_Marsh_07_11_105\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5977882751\/\" title=\"Potters_Marsh_07_11_185 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6149\/5977882751_e2d4e67b9b.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Potters_Marsh_07_11_185\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, some birds:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5977889755\/\" title=\"Potters_Marsh_07_11_047 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6145\/5977889755_3eabd771c1.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Potters_Marsh_07_11_047\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greater yellowlegs (?) <em>Tringa melanoleuca<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5977880833\/\" title=\"Potters_Marsh_07_11_059 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6144\/5977880833_25d8a44647.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Potters_Marsh_07_11_059\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arctic tern <em>Sterna paradosea<\/em><br \/>\nGreater yellowlegs (?) <em>Tringa melanoleuca<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5978440022\/\" title=\"Potters_Marsh_07_11_077 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6008\/5978440022_708cc5de5c.jpg?resize=333%2C500\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Potters_Marsh_07_11_077\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Common Redpoll <em>Carduelis flammea<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5977881539\/\" title=\"Potters_Marsh_07_11_147 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6148\/5977881539_7980b9a1a0.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Potters_Marsh_07_11_147\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gull of some sort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 11th we went to Potter&#8217;s Marsh, part of the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge. It is a birder&#8217;s paradise, and although I am not a birder, I enjoyed using my new zoom lens to see birds up close. As you can see, it was another grey day, but it was fun regardless. First, some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1059,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-257","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}