{"id":15629,"date":"2014-08-11T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=15629"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:03:33","slug":"little-blue-heron-in-a-florida-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/08\/11\/little-blue-heron-in-a-florida-lagoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Blue Heron In A Florida Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LittleLittle Blue Heron at sunset – Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/640, ISO 160, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

While I was away late last month a Little Blue Heron was spotted by Norm Jenson<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and his wife Gail\u00a0at Glover Pond near where I live.<\/p>\n

The Little Blue caused quite a stir because the wading bird was well out of its normal range but by the time I came back the heron wasn’t being spotted any more.<\/p>\n

I had hoped to photograph one here in Utah because I enjoyed photographing them so much while I lived in Florida.<\/p>\n

I looked through my images and found this frame of a Little Blue foraging in a tidal lagoon late in the evening at Fort De Soto’s north beach on December 1, 2008.<\/p>\n

I remember how cold the water was that night, how I shivered sitting waist deep in the lagoon and how silly I felt because I had left my change of dry clothes at home and had to drive 45 minutes in stinky, sandy, and very wet clothes to get there.<\/p>\n

I missed the Little Blue Heron in Utah<\/span><\/a> but I have fond memories of the day I photographed this one as the sun began to set over the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Little Blue Heron photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I missed the Little Blue Heron in Utah but I have fond memories of the day I photographed this one as the sun began to set over the Gulf of Mexico. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,25,704,81],"tags":[4004,5132,85,4077,627,626,84,4140,313,3996,373],"class_list":["post-15629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","category-little-blue-herons","tag-adult","tag-coastal","tag-egretta-caerulea","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-heron","tag-herons","tag-little-blue-heron","tag-tidal-lagoon","tag-wading-birds","tag-water","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t