{"id":1989,"date":"2013-08-15T10:39:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T14:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2025-06-11T20:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T00:02:58","slug":"where-is-this-plovers-tam-oshanter-and-bagpipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/where-is-this-plovers-tam-oshanter-and-bagpipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is This Plover&#8217;s Tam O&#8217;Shanter and Bagpipes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While walking on a foggy sand beach facing the great gray Atlantic Ocean, my family and I saw a pair of small silver birds busily working away. As we passed them on the way to our car to escape the steadily increasing patter of rain, I clicked a few quick photos.<\/p>\n<p>Can you guess what kind of Plover this is?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MysteryPloverInNSFlying.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1988\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MysteryPloverInNSFlying-400x321.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Mystery Plover In NS Flying\" width=\"400\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MysteryPloverInNSFlying-400x321.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MysteryPloverInNSFlying-200x160.jpg 200w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MysteryPloverInNSFlying-372x300.jpg 372w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MysteryPloverInNSFlying.jpg 1502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More to follow in another post but today the sun is shining and the breeze is blowing and it&#8217;s time to go back to the beach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<a title=\"Killdeer Trills, Lies Flat, Fans Tail and Spreads Wings: Why?\" href=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/killdeer-trills-lies-flat-fans-tail-spreads-wings-why\/\"><strong>Killdeer Trills, Fans Tail and Spreads Wings: Why?<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/ruddy-turnstone-turns-my-head\/\"><strong>A Ruddy Turnstone Turns My Head<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Join In<\/strong><br \/>\nHave you ever snapped a photo only to find out later that you were witness to the unexpected? Please share your experiences with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding a Piping Plover is an unexpected joy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[995,233,994],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambles","tag-hirtle-beach","tag-nova-scotia","tag-piping-plover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9896,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/9896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}