{"id":2877,"date":"2015-02-18T13:59:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T18:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2015-02-18T14:02:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T19:02:34","slug":"winters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=2877","title":{"rendered":"Winters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago, the thing that impressed me about Hatteras Island was how temperate the winters could be. The first few years after I moved here, I don\u2019t think it ever went below freezing. I learned that the water surrounding the island acts as a heat sink and tends to keep temperatures more moderate, compared to those to the north and inland.<\/p>\n

This year has not been one of those winters. The cold fronts have been colder, stormier and more frequent.<\/p>\n

\"north<\/a>A series of storms took its toll on the Rodanthe Pier. Last week I could see that the end of the pier would soon collapse into the sea.<\/p>\n

\"viewers\"<\/a>An hour after I made this shot, the pier became 75 feet shorter. The next day, the owners retrieved some of the timbers washed in on the beach and are resolved to rebuild it.<\/p>\n

\"marsh\"<\/a>In the meantime, temperatures have plummeted and the Pamlico Sound froze overnight. The ice sculpted on the shoreline was a sight to behold. There were icicles on the marsh of all different shapes and sizes.<\/p>\n

\"ice<\/a>The sound was solid ice for hundreds of yards off shore.<\/p>\n

\"ringneck\"<\/a>When the waters freeze, the ducks come in wherever they can find open water. At a pond near my house, I found a variety including this Ring-Necked Duck.<\/p>\n

\"grebe\"<\/a>A Pie-Billed Grebe was among the group.<\/p>\n

\"ruddy\"<\/a>There were about 50 Ruddy Ducks.<\/p>\n

\"canvasback\"<\/a>I was excited to see this Canvasback. It’s a sure sign that winter is far from over, and that it’ll only get colder.<\/p>\n

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Years ago, the thing that impressed me about Hatteras Island was how temperate the winters could be. The first few years after I moved here, I don\u2019t think it ever went below freezing. I learned that the water surrounding the island acts as a heat sink and tends to keep temperatures more moderate, compared to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26,27,34,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-outer-banks","category-pamlico-sound","category-piers","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}