{"id":7739,"date":"2021-01-07T06:52:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T11:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=7739"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:31:06","slug":"wood-storks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/07\/wood-storks\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood Storks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently had the pleasure of capturing some fun birds in flight images with my neighbor and artist, Jerry Horine. We found an active area where wood storks were moving from their morning roosting spots. Storks are great targets because they tend to slowly glide a long way before landing. I also never realized how the edges of their wings had a green iridescence.<\/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\/201213-4-wood-stork-regaining-balance-on-windy-day.jpg\" alt=\"Wood Stork Regaining Balance On Windy Day\" class=\"wp-image-98658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201213-4-wood-stork-regaining-balance-on-windy-day.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201213-4-wood-stork-regaining-balance-on-windy-day-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201213-4-wood-stork-regaining-balance-on-windy-day-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201213-4-wood-stork-regaining-balance-on-windy-day-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201213-4-wood-stork-regaining-balance-on-windy-day-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201213-4-wood-stork-regaining-balance-on-windy-day-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wood Stork Regaining It&#8217;s Balance on a Windy Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More photos have been uploaded to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/gary-walker-photography\/galleries\/nature\/birds\/cranes-and-storks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cranes and Storks<\/a><\/strong> gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the pleasure of capturing some fun birds in flight images with my neighbor and artist, Jerry Horine. We found an active area where wood storks were moving from their morning roosting spots. Storks are great targets because they tend to slowly glide a long way before landing. I also never realized how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-7739","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\/201213-4-wood-stork-touching-down-in-grass.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739","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=7739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109865,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739\/revisions\/109865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}