{"id":7540,"date":"2020-12-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=7540"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:56:34","slug":"scissortail-flycatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/01\/scissortail-flycatcher\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Scissor-tailed Flycatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks to my good friend Art Nadelman, I was able to locate a recent migrant to the area. Scissor-tailed flycatchers are found mainly in Oklahoma, Texas, and Mexico. Occasionally their winter migration route to southern Central America takes them a little off course and they can end up here in Florida. They&#8217;re fun to watch as they sit along utility wires and fences waiting for insects to fly by. Then they burst into action and snag their meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201127-3-scissor-tailed-flycatcher-returning-to-perch-with-a-bug.jpg\" alt=\"Scissor Tailed Flycatcher Returning To Perch With A Bug\" class=\"wp-image-98973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201127-3-scissor-tailed-flycatcher-returning-to-perch-with-a-bug.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201127-3-scissor-tailed-flycatcher-returning-to-perch-with-a-bug-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201127-3-scissor-tailed-flycatcher-returning-to-perch-with-a-bug-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201127-3-scissor-tailed-flycatcher-returning-to-perch-with-a-bug-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201127-3-scissor-tailed-flycatcher-returning-to-perch-with-a-bug-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201127-3-scissor-tailed-flycatcher-returning-to-perch-with-a-bug-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Returning to a Perch with a Bug<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>For a larger selection of photos, go to the galleries listed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/gary-walker-photography\/galleries\/nature\/birds\/flycatchers\/\">Flycatchers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to my good friend Art Nadelman, I was able to locate a recent migrant to the area. Scissor-tailed flycatchers are found mainly in Oklahoma, Texas, and Mexico. Occasionally their winter migration route to southern Central America takes them a little off course and they can end up here in Florida. They&#8217;re fun to watch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-7540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida","tag-nature"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201127-3-scissor-tailed-flycatcher-perched-on-wire-looking-back.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109179,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540\/revisions\/109179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}