{"id":3503,"date":"2018-12-21T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdenbeach.me\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2022-05-04T10:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T14:17:55","slug":"photo-black-skimmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holden.me\/2018\/12\/21\/photo-black-skimmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo: Black Skimmers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.holdenbeach.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Du4MDuXW0AAPZk4.jpg-large-1024x683.jpeg?resize=960%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2316\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Black Skimmers at Holden Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photographer, <strong>Sean Leahy<\/strong>, captured a trio of beautiful Black Skimmers while visiting Holden Beach in the summer of 2018.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sean<\/strong> posts stunning natural photography on twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanleahyphotos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@seanleahyphoto<\/a>).  You can find his extended collection of photography on his website (<a href=\"https:\/\/seanleahyphotos.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean Leahy Photos<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This trio of Black Skimmers was taken on Holden Beach this summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/seanleahyphotos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#seanleahyphotos<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5zK7TFcOEj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5zK7TFcOEj<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Sean Leahy (@seanleahyphotos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanleahyphotos\/status\/1075810630320435202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 20, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Black Skimmer <\/strong>is a seabird that breeds in North and South America. Northern populations winter in the warmer waters of the Caribbean and the tropical and subtropical pacific coasts. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_skimmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more (wikipedia) &gt; <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holden_Beach,_North_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holden Beach<\/a> is a registered bird sanctuary due to the number of bird species that migrate to and from the island. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is unlawful for anyone to hunt, kill, maim, injure, or trap birds within the <a href=\"http:\/\/hbtownhall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Town of Holden Beach<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer, Sean Leahy, captured a trio of beautiful Black Skimmers while visiting Holden Beach in the summer of 2018. Sean posts stunning natural photography on twitter (@seanleahyphoto). You can find his extended collection of photography on his website (Sean Leahy Photos). This trio of Black Skimmers was taken on Holden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3644,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions\/3644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}