{"id":21274,"date":"2022-12-19T04:56:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T09:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=21274"},"modified":"2022-12-19T04:58:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T09:58:48","slug":"watch-fishing-boat-returns-home-to-point-pleasant-gets-swarmed-by-gulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2022\/12\/watch-fishing-boat-returns-home-to-point-pleasant-gets-swarmed-by-gulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Fishing Boat Returns Home to Point Pleasant, Gets Swarmed by Gulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"v-n1SXOyhM-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1000' height='562' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/n1SXOyhM?hd=1&cover=1&loop=0&autoPlay=0&permalink=1&muted=0&controls=1&playsinline=0&useAverageColor=0&preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/video\/assets\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js'><\/script><\/div>\n<p>You know we love a good sunset here at Shorebeat \u2013 but sometimes (especially this time of year) clouds roll in, and the little bit of sun you have fades before you reach your destination.<\/p>\n<p>Nature\u2019s show on Sunday, as the case was, did not include a majestic sunset \u2013 but a rather hilarious onslaught of seagulls following a small commercial fishing vessel into port in Point Pleasant Beach. Gulls flying behind fishing boats, of course, is completely routine. But the sheer number of them \u2013 as well as a stunning \u201cflow\u201d of more birds into a small area at rapid speed \u2013 was something even we salty locals noticed while seeking out a few drone shots to end the week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12756\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/manasquan_inlet_seagulls_nj_778-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12756\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12756\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/manasquan_inlet_seagulls_nj_778-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Manasquan Inlet, Dec. 18, 2022. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manasquan Inlet, Dec. 18, 2022. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12757\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/manasquan_inlet_seagulls_nj_779-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12757\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12757\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/manasquan_inlet_seagulls_nj_779-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Seagulls 'swarm' around a commercial fishing boat at Manasquan Inlet, Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., Dec. 18, 2022. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seagulls \u2018swarm\u2019 around a commercial fishing boat at Manasquan Inlet, Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., Dec. 18, 2022. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12758\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/manasquan_inlet_seagulls_nj_780-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12758\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12758\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/manasquan_inlet_seagulls_nj_780-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Seagulls 'swarm' around a commercial fishing boat at Manasquan Inlet, Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., Dec. 18, 2022. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seagulls \u2018swarm\u2019 around a commercial fishing boat at Manasquan Inlet, Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., Dec. 18, 2022. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It looks like the gulls\u2019 effort wasn\u2019t all for naught \u2013 a nice chunk of \u201csomething\u201d fishy went over the rail before the crew tied up to the dock. But a free lunch is hard to come by this time of year, whether due to a dearth of potato chip bags left in unsuspecting swimmers\u2019 beach bags, or few fishing boats heading out in unpredictable winter seas. At the very least, they put on an unintended and unexpected show for us \u2013 and we were lucky enough to capture it to share.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2022\/12\/watch-fishing-boat-returns-home-to-point-pleasant-gets-swarmed-by-gulls\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know we love a good sunset here at Shorebeat \u2013 but sometimes (especially this time of year) clouds roll in, and the little bit of sun you have fades before you reach your destination. Nature\u2019s show on Sunday, as the case was, did not include a majestic sunset \u2013 but a rather hilarious onslaught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,4844,4484,3211,182,256,4848,16],"class_list":["post-21274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boating-fishing","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-commercial-fishing","tag-featured","tag-fishing-boat","tag-jersey-shore","tag-manasquan-inlet","tag-north-atlantic","tag-point-pleasant-beach","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/manasquan_inlet_seagulls_nj_780-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-5x8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}