{"id":8333,"date":"2021-04-14T07:51:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T11:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=8333"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:55:44","slug":"more-buntings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/14\/more-buntings\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"More Buntings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We visited one of the local nature preserves a few days ago just to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather. To our surprise, we found a bunch of indigo buntings along with a single male painted bunting. We thought maybe they had started their journey north for the summer but to our delight, they&#8217;re still here. We were even able to get some shots of males that have finished their molting into full color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210404-3-indigo-bunting-male-on-branch.jpg\" alt=\"Indigo Bunting Male On Branch\" class=\"wp-image-98590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210404-3-indigo-bunting-male-on-branch.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210404-3-indigo-bunting-male-on-branch-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210404-3-indigo-bunting-male-on-branch-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210404-3-indigo-bunting-male-on-branch-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210404-3-indigo-bunting-male-on-branch-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210404-3-indigo-bunting-male-on-branch-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Male Indigo Bunting on the End of a Branch<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Our backyard painted buntings are also still here. Yesterday we saw multiple males and the lone female at the feeder. We keep hoping that they&#8217;ll decide to forego the northern travel and stay here for nesting season! They have been so fun to watch over the past 6 months.<\/p>\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\/buntings\/\">Buntings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We visited one of the local nature preserves a few days ago just to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather. To our surprise, we found a bunch of indigo buntings along with a single male painted bunting. We thought maybe they had started their journey north for the summer but to our delight, they&#8217;re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-8333","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\/210404-4-indigo-bunting-male-perched-on-palmetto-branch.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333","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=8333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109165,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions\/109165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}