{"id":15764,"date":"2014-09-04T05:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=15764"},"modified":"2025-09-21T05:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:48:59","slug":"a-morning-spent-at-fort-de-soto-six-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/09\/04\/a-morning-spent-at-fort-de-soto-six-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"A Morning Spent At Fort De Soto Six Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JuvenileJuvenile Black Skimmer scurrying up the shoreline<\/span><\/p>\n

Six years ago this morning I was photographing birds at Fort De Soto County Park and I wanted to share a few images and memories of that day.<\/p>\n

I started photographing birds right after the sun came up and this juvenile Black Skimmer scurrying up the shoreline was among the first birds I pointed my lens at.<\/p>\n

\"Sandwich<\/span><\/a>Sandwich Tern pair<\/span><\/p>\n

It wasn’t long before I found myself photographing a pair of Sandwich Terns kind of having a fight over a driftwood perch.<\/p>\n

\"LoneLone Wood Stork at the north beach of Fort De Soto<\/span><\/p>\n

And then the largest wading bird on the beach that morning, a Wood Stork giving me the eye.<\/p>\n

\"JuvenileJuvenile American Oystercatcher in stormy light<\/span><\/p>\n

This American Oystercatcher juvenile was special to me, I had watched and photographed it since it was only two days old. It was always a delight to photograph it as it grew and flourished.<\/p>\n

\"FluffyFluffy Semipalmated Plover<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I photographed a few little plovers foraging, walking and fluffing their feathers on the sandy beach. This Semipalmated Plover had been preening and fluffed its feathers before heading out to forage.<\/p>\n

\"PipingPiping Plover and friend<\/span><\/p>\n

The Piping Plover wasn’t too far away from the Semipalmated Plover\u00a0as it foraged while heading down the beach, I like how in this image its size can be compared to the preening Sandwich Tern in the background.<\/p>\n

It was a delightful morning with the birds I love.<\/p>\n

Life is good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my bird photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six years ago this morning I was photographing birds at Fort De Soto County Park and I wanted to share a few images and memories of that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153392,"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":[19,27,253,25,704,2000,178,1860,268,353],"tags":[3974,4039,4021,3990,1114,4261,4077,22,4071,950,5988,3816,4194,4323,5841,275,4211,1861,3991,4891,4697,5117,5410,951,2090,629,3996,4119,4441],"class_list":["post-15764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-oystercatchers","category-avian","category-black-skimmers","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","category-pinellas-county-florida","category-piping-plovers","category-sandwich-terns","category-semipalmated-plovers","category-wood-storks","tag-american-oystercatcher","tag-beach","tag-bird-photography","tag-black-skimmer","tag-charadrius-melodus","tag-charadrius-semipalmatus","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-haematopus-palliatus","tag-juvenile","tag-mycteria-americana","tag-oystercatcher","tag-oystercatchers","tag-passerculus-sandwichensis","tag-piping-plover","tag-plover","tag-plovers","tag-rynchops-niger","tag-sandwich-tern","tag-semipalmated-plover","tag-shore","tag-skimmer","tag-skimmers","tag-stork","tag-storks","tag-tern","tag-terns","tag-water","tag-waves","tag-wood-stork"],"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