{"id":472,"date":"2010-03-17T11:35:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2010-03-16T22:11:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T02:11:21","slug":"florida-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/florida-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great start to photographing birds in Florida.  Our first trek brought us to Maximo Beach &#038; Park.  While the weather was cool, the skies were blue and the sun rose to kiss our subjects with beautiful warm light.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_471\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/florida-birds\/20100315_morning_birds_0625_blog\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-471\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100315_morning_birds_0625_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20100315_morning_birds_0625_blog\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100315_morning_birds_0625_blog.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100315_morning_birds_0625_blog-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Oyster Catcher on Bed of Oysters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The American Oyster Catcher was one of the birds I hoped to photograph.  We were lucky to have this one present itself on a bed of oysters!<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon found us at a fishing pier working on our panning and bird flight photography.  The main characters present were the Florida Brown Pelican, Royal Tern and Laughing Gulls.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_473\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 266px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/florida-birds\/20100315_night_birds_2358_blog\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-473\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100315_night_birds_2358_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20100315_night_birds_2358_blog\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100315_night_birds_2358_blog.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100315_night_birds_2358_blog-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown Pelican on Pier<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_474\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/florida-birds\/20100315_night_birds_2068_blog\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-474\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100315_night_birds_2068_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20100315_night_birds_2068_blog\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100315_night_birds_2068_blog.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100315_night_birds_2068_blog-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida Brown Pelican in flight<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_475\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/florida-birds\/20100315_night_birds_3249_blog\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-475\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100315_night_birds_3249_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20100315_night_birds_3249_blog\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100315_night_birds_3249_blog.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100315_night_birds_3249_blog-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Royal Tern in flight<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>All in all it was a great first day in Florida!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great start to photographing birds in Florida. 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