{"id":2748,"date":"2011-07-12T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2025-06-12T06:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:16:01","slug":"snowy-plover-resting-at-the-wrack-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2011\/07\/12\/snowy-plover-resting-at-the-wrack-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Plover Resting At The Wrack Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SnowyResting Snowy Plover – Nikon D200, f10, 1\/350, ISO 160, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Snowy Plovers are the smallest plover of North America and as their name implies they are very pale colored.<\/p>\n

I spotted this Snowy Plover<\/span><\/a> resting near the wrack line near the Gulf of Mexico during the winter and sand-crawled up close to it to get a low angle in the beautiful light.<\/p>\n

For Florida the morning was cool so the bird had its feathers fluffed up to help keep the warmth close to its body.<\/p>\n

I know that there are those photographers who would have “cleaned up” the sand on the bill of this bird using cloning and other Photoshop techniques.<\/p>\n

The thing is, I prefer to leave my images as natural as possible. The sand was there when I took this so I left it alone. Personally I think it adds interest and reality as it is.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I spotted this plover resting near the wrack line near the Gulf of Mexico during the winter and sand-crawled up close to it to get a low angle in the beautiful light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148233,"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":[25,118,266],"tags":[4191,4077,4036,4246,3986,5841,275,4156,4017,274,4188,3978,3996,373,817,815],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida","category-shorebirds","category-snowy-plovers","tag-anarhynchus-nivosus","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-low-angle","tag-nonbreeding-plumage","tag-north-beach","tag-plover","tag-plovers","tag-resting","tag-sand","tag-shorebirds-2","tag-shoreline","tag-snowy-plover","tag-water","tag-winter","tag-wintering","tag-wrack-line"],"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