{"id":9411,"date":"2022-01-26T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=9411"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:03:43","slug":"reddish-egret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/26\/reddish-egret\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddish Egret"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One bird that has become a favorite of photographers is a reddish egret. They are acrobatic feeders. There is one that people search for at Fort DeSoto Park in St. Petersburg. If you find a group of people in the tidal flats, you can generally figure that a reddish egret is the focus of their attention. They typically favor the pools along the beaches created by the receding tide where fish get trapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently we found one that was fishing shallow inland waters. He was alongside a large flock of white pelicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220112-4-reddish-egret-watching-for-fish.jpg\" alt=\"Reddish Egret Watching For Fish\" class=\"wp-image-98894\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Reddish Egret Watching for Fish<\/em><\/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\/egrets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Egrets<\/strong><\/a> gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One bird that has become a favorite of photographers is a reddish egret. They are acrobatic feeders. There is one that people search for at Fort DeSoto Park in St. Petersburg. If you find a group of people in the tidal flats, you can generally figure that a reddish egret is the focus of their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-9411","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\/220112-4-reddish-egret-ready-to-strike.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411","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=9411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109908,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions\/109908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}