{"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":"

We had a great start to photographing birds in Florida. Our first trek brought us to Maximo Beach & Park. While the weather was cool, the skies were blue and the sun rose to kiss our subjects with beautiful warm light.<\/p>\n

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American Oyster Catcher on Bed of Oysters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

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.
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Brown Pelican on Pier<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Florida Brown Pelican in flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Royal Tern in flight<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

All in all it was a great first day in Florida!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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