{"id":41937,"date":"2016-09-11T05:18:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T11:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=41937"},"modified":"2025-06-27T09:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:48:36","slug":"snowy-egret-landing-at-farmington-bay-wma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/09\/11\/snowy-egret-landing-at-farmington-bay-wma\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Egret Landing at Farmington Bay WMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SnowySnowy Egret landing at Farmington Bay – Nikon D810, f8, 1\/1600, ISO 250, -0.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
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About a year ago there was a gathering of Snowy Egrets at Farmington Bay where they fattened up on the fish and frogs they found there to get ready for migration. There was a lot of fighting and territorial behavior to be seen as they chased each other around when any of the other egrets would catch prey or when a bird would wander to close to another hunting egret. They were quite amusing to watch and photograph and I just never knew when a squabble would start.<\/p>\n

Right after I photographed this Snowy Egret landing it started to chase after another egret that had a small fish and they both flew off with their backs to me.<\/p>\n

Farmington Bay WMA opens the gates near Goose Egg Island in just a few days and I wonder if the egrets will be back in this same location this year before they head south for the winter. We’ll see!<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

Right after I photographed this Snowy Egret landing it started to chase after another egret that had a small fish and they both flew off with their backs to me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149523,"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":[27,1022,697,255,26],"tags":[4004,743,351,4120,4123,4094,3988,5418,313,4095],"class_list":["post-41937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-snowy-egrets","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-egret","tag-egrets","tag-egretta-thula","tag-landing","tag-marsh","tag-snowy-egret","tag-territorial-behavior","tag-wading-birds","tag-wetlands"],"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