{"id":9646,"date":"2022-02-15T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=9646"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:53:44","slug":"lake-morton-waterfowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/15\/lake-morton-waterfowl\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Morton Waterfowl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lakeland, FL is aptly named with over 30 lakes within the city limits. The best lake for photography always seems to be Lake Morton. It\u2019s famous for its population of swans. But the main reason we like Lake Morton is for the wood ducks and several migrating ducks that visit every year. It\u2019s a nice easy walk of about 1 mile to go completely around the lake. But it can take over an hour because of all the photo opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mallard
Mallard Drake Resting Peacefully with His Head Tucked Under His Wing<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Ring
Female Ring-necked Duck Resting on a Large Rock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Lesser
Male Lesser Scaup Duck Swimming Across the Water Looking Left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Wood
Wood Duck Male Resting and Looking Back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More photos have been uploaded to the Dabbling Ducks<\/strong><\/a>, Diving Ducks<\/a><\/strong>, and Wood Ducks<\/a><\/strong> galleries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lakeland, FL is aptly named with over 30 lakes within the city limits. The best lake for photography always seems to be Lake Morton. It\u2019s famous for its population of swans. But the main reason we like Lake Morton is for the wood ducks and several migrating ducks that visit every year. It\u2019s a nice…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-9646","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\/220131-4-mallard-drake-cruising-on-pond.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646","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=9646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109924,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions\/109924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}