{"id":27257,"date":"2015-08-08T05:56:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T11:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=27257"},"modified":"2024-11-23T04:30:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T10:30:22","slug":"marbled-godwits-are-migrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2015\/08\/08\/marbled-godwits-are-migrating\/","title":{"rendered":"Marbled Godwits Are Migrating"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MarbledMarbled Godwits feeding in a Florida lagoon- Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/640, ISO 160, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 360mm, natural light
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The past few times I have gone to Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge<\/span><\/a> I have seen Marbled Godwits flying over and I know that their migration to their wintering grounds has begun. Marbled Godwits do not breed in Utah and I only see them while they are migrating to or from their breeding grounds in the grasslands of the northern U.S. and southern Canada. I photographed them on their wintering grounds on the Gulf Coast of Florida quite often.<\/p>\n

It seems a little odd that while we are still having temperatures in the 90\u00b0 range that fall migration has already started but it has for quite a few bird species. It reminds me that summer will soon be gone and autumn will be here before we know it.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

The past few times I have gone to Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge I have seen Marbled Godwits flying over and I know that their migration to their wintering grounds has begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137313,"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":[27,25,704,88,2000],"tags":[4004,5229,5132,4040,4136,2546,3945,4163,4419,3946,274,4140],"class_list":["post-27257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","category-marbled-godwits","category-pinellas-county-florida","tag-adult","tag-coast","tag-coastal","tag-feeding","tag-foraging","tag-godwit","tag-godwits","tag-limosa-fedoa","tag-marbled-godwit","tag-migrating","tag-shorebirds-2","tag-tidal-lagoon"],"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