{"id":2060,"date":"2011-08-12T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2011-08-09T04:40:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T08:40:22","slug":"snowy-egrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/snowy-egrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Egrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2061\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/snowy-egrets\/_vnm2252-as-smart-object-1-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2061\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/VNM2252-as-Smart-Object-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"_VNM2252 as Smart Object-1 copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/VNM2252-as-Smart-Object-1-copy.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/VNM2252-as-Smart-Object-1-copy-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowy Egret in Breeding Plumage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The above picture was taken along Dune Rd in Quogue at sunrise.  As you can tell, this male was in full breeding plumage and trying to impress the ladies!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2062\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/snowy-egrets\/_vnm3030-as-smart-object-1-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2062\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/VNM3030-as-Smart-Object-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"_VNM3030 as Smart Object-1 copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/VNM3030-as-Smart-Object-1-copy.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/VNM3030-as-Smart-Object-1-copy-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowy Egret Party<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A little further down the road, this group of Snowy Egrets was working a tidal pool.  I must have been a tad late to this party as the feeding was limited.  I suspect they cleaned the tidal pool out before I got there.<\/p>\n<p>Images captured with D700, 600mm f\/4 w\/1.4 TCe on Lexar Digital Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above picture was taken along Dune Rd in Quogue at sunrise. As you can tell, this male was in full breeding plumage and trying to impress the ladies! A little further down the road, this group of Snowy Egrets was working a tidal pool. I must have been a tad late to this party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyuQ8-xe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}