{"id":7906,"date":"2021-01-14T06:35:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T11:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=7906"},"modified":"2026-01-26T07:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:31:03","slug":"cinnamon-teal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/14\/cinnamon-teal\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinnamon Teal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This past weekend I had the opportunity to photograph a cinnamon teal. It&#8217;s a bird I have never seen in the wild. Cinnamon teal are seldom spotted east of the Mississippi River so finding one here in Florida was a real treat! They are beautiful birds, especially in flight where you can see their light blue wing patches and green speculums. Unfortunately, this cinnamon teal was feeding on a grass bed in the middle of a small lake which made photographing a challenge. These images are heavily cropped which sacrifices detail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210110-3-cinnamon-teal-chewing-grass-on-pond.jpg?ver\" alt=\"Cinnamon Teal Chewing Grass On Pond\" class=\"wp-image-43119\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Cinnamon Teal Male Chewing Grass on a Pond<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Cinnamon teal like to feed by skimming for plants right under the surface so most of the time their head is under water. When they come up for a breath, it&#8217;s only for a moment before they shove their head back down again to return to feeding. Thank goodness for digital cameras because I couldn&#8217;t afford the film and processing to capture this bird!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>A few more pictures from this journey are featured below. 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\/dabbling-ducks\/\">Dabbling Ducks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I had the opportunity to photograph a cinnamon teal. It&#8217;s a bird I have never seen in the wild. Cinnamon teal are seldom spotted east of the Mississippi River so finding one here in Florida was a real treat! They are beautiful birds, especially in flight where you can see their light&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-7906","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\/210110-3-cinnamon-teal-male-eating-grass-on-lake.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906","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=7906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109086,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions\/109086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}