{"id":6384,"date":"2012-10-17T03:55:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T09:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=6384"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:10:09","slug":"four-years-ago-today-at-fort-de-soto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/10\/17\/four-years-ago-today-at-fort-de-soto\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Years Ago Today At Fort De Soto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a few images taken 4 years ago today at the north beach of Fort De Soto.<\/p>\n

\"GreatGreat Egret in flight pano<\/span><\/p>\n

It was not a super busy day but I did get quite a few images that I like. I was in the lagoon when this Great Egret flew in, it was a slow approach to the landing and it gave me time to get quite a few images of it.<\/p>\n

\"ReddishReddish Egret with a fish in a lagoon<\/span><\/p>\n

This Reddish Egret was very cooperative but I believe that was because it took the egret nearly 5 minutes to get the fish down its throat! Those spines looked… sharp! Kind of made my throat scratchy just watching it.<\/p>\n

\"NonbreedingNonbreeding Laughing Gull on exposed sea grass bed<\/span><\/p>\n

This Laughing Gull was hanging around the Reddish Egret, maybe it was hoping to steal the fish the egret had such a hard time swallowing. It sure looked lovely in it’s nonbreeding plumage on the dark green sea grasses.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my bird photos in their galleries.<\/p>\n

*I’m probably packing to head out for my last camping trip of the year. Feel free to share this post with your friends & family!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a few images taken 4 years ago today at the north beach of Fort De Soto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157601,"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":[27,25,704,362,188,157],"tags":[4272,4021,4083,351,4185,363,521,3995,4160,3980,160,313],"class_list":["post-6384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","category-great-egrets","category-laughing-gulls-gulls","category-reddish-egret","tag-ardea-alba","tag-bird-photography","tag-birding","tag-egrets","tag-egretta-rufescens","tag-great-egret","tag-gulls","tag-laughing-gull","tag-leucophaeus-atricilla","tag-pinellas-county","tag-reddish-egret","tag-wading-birds"],"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