{"id":9403,"date":"2022-01-30T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=9403"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:01:11","slug":"wintering-waterfowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/30\/wintering-waterfowl\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Wintering Waterfowl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It started off being a rather quiet year for waterfowl. No matter where we went in December and early January, the numbers seemed down from years past. But the last couple of weeks have changed everything. Not only have the number of ducks improved, but we found a couple of species that we hadn\u2019t seen in our travels. Most notably is the northern pintail. We located a small nature preserve near Tampa Bay that the ducks liked. In addition to the pintails, we found northern shovelers, widgeons, and plenty of teal, including my favorite, a green-winged teal. Hopefully they\u2019ll stick around for a few more weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220115-3-northern-pintail-male-flying-by.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Pintail Male Flying By\" class=\"wp-image-98778\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Male Northern Pintail Flying By<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220113-3-northern-pintail-male-with-long-tail-swimming-to-left.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Pintail Male With Long Tail Swimming To Left\" class=\"wp-image-98774\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Northern Pintail Male Swimming to the Left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220120-5-green-winged-teal-blasting-off.jpg\" alt=\"Green Winged Teal Blasting Off\" class=\"wp-image-98797\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Green-winged Teal Male Blasting Off the Water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More photos have been uploaded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/gary-walker-photography\/galleries\/nature\/birds\/dabbling-ducks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Dabbling Ducks<\/strong><\/a> gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started off being a rather quiet year for waterfowl. No matter where we went in December and early January, the numbers seemed down from years past. But the last couple of weeks have changed everything. Not only have the number of ducks improved, but we found a couple of species that we hadn\u2019t seen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-9403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida","tag-nature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220115-5-flock-of-blue-winged-teal-flaring-to-land.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403","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=9403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109914,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions\/109914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}