{"id":8533,"date":"2013-06-07T03:40:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T09:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=8533"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:46:26","slug":"juvenile-willet-looking-for-prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/06\/07\/juvenile-willet-looking-for-prey\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Willet looking for prey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JuvenileJuvenile Willet on the shore of the Lower Lake<\/span><\/p>\n

It won’t be long before I start seeing juvenile Willets that are about the size of the one pictured here.<\/p>\n

This one still has a bit of down left on the back of its upper neck and its bill is slightly shorter than an adult’s.<\/p>\n

As I watched this juvenile Willet at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge<\/span><\/a> I saw it catch 2 dragonfly nymphs and eat them.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my Willet photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n

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It won’t be long before I start seeing juvenile Willets that are about the size of the one pictured here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163558,"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":[1513,27,223,12,608,308],"tags":[4067,4071,5178,11483,3521,992,4891,274,4188,4168,11478,3996,4047,4193],"class_list":["post-8533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beaverhead-county-montana","category-avian","category-centennial-valley","category-montana","category-red-rock-lakes-national-wildlife-refuge","category-willets","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-lake","tag-lake-shore","tag-sandpiper","tag-sandpipers","tag-shore","tag-shorebirds-2","tag-shoreline","tag-tringa-semipalmata","tag-tringa-semipalmata-inornata","tag-water","tag-willet","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