{"id":6183,"date":"2012-09-25T05:58:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T11:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=6183"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:36:03","slug":"american-oystercatchers-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/09\/25\/american-oystercatchers-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"American Oystercatchers in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RestingResting American Oystercatcher juvenile – Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/640, ISO 200, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

This juvenile American Oystercatcher belonged to a family that I followed for a few months at Fort De Soto County Park in\u00a0Florida\u00a0from the time the chicks were two days old until they left the adults. I’d written about them here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I like the resting pose and the eye contact I got from the young oystercatcher and the background of the Spartina marsh. It was a great deal of fun to observe and photograph this oystercatcher family for three and a half months.<\/p>\n

\"AmericanAmerican Oystercatcher adult on Egmont Key- Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/1600, ISO 250, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I was on on Egmont Key when I photographed this adult American Oystercatcher, I was in a Florida Master Naturalist class at the time and we spent the day there.<\/p>\n

The class instructor cut her foot open while jumping off of the boat she came on.<\/p>\n

It took less than ten minutes after stepping off the ferry from Fort De Soto for me to ruin brand new hiking pants and slice my knee open on a broken shell. I don\u2019t feel pain like most people, so it wasn\u2019t until blood was streaming over my foot that I knew how bad it was.<\/p>\n

Then about mid day we saw a boat get swamped by waves on the western shore of the island. Despite all of those mishaps it was a great day to be out there.<\/p>\n

I adored the color of the water in the background of this image, a wonderful\u00a0turquoise blue that reminded me of the Caribbean. Or the water off of the coast of New South Wales.<\/p>\n

I don’t get to see or photograph oystercatchers here in Utah but I still dream about these shorebirds and can hear their calls when I look at the thousands of images I took of them.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I don’t get to see or photograph Oystercatchers here in Utah but I still dream about these shorebirds and can hear their calls when I look at the thousands of images I took of them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153350,"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":[19,27,1747,1746,25,704],"tags":[4004,3974,4039,14752,173,4077,22,4067,4071,10603,4094,5988,3816,4156,4017,4139,3996,4119,4193],"class_list":["post-6183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-oystercatchers","category-avian","category-egmont-key-national-wildlife-refuge","category-egmont-key-state-park","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","tag-adult","tag-american-oystercatcher","tag-beach","tag-coastal-island","tag-gulf-coast","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-haematopus-palliatus","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-kneeling","tag-marsh","tag-oystercatcher","tag-oystercatchers","tag-resting","tag-sand","tag-spartina","tag-water","tag-waves","tag-young"],"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