{"id":9681,"date":"2022-02-14T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=9681"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:55:43","slug":"photography-heaven-in-venice-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/14\/photography-heaven-in-venice-florida\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography Heaven in Venice Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the middle of the city of Venice, FL is a very small pond with a little island on one end. Each year the island becomes home to dozens of herons, egrets and cormorants that build their nests and raise their young. It is a photographer and birder magnet because the island and its birds are so close to shore. The park is managed by the local Audubon chapter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a great time to witness the breeding plumage of the Great Egrets. They develop lacy back feathers and the coloring around their beaks turns bright green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220202-4-great-egret-with-breeding-plumes-blowing-in-breeze.jpg\" alt=\"Great Egret With Breeding Plumes Blowing In Breeze\" class=\"wp-image-98900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220202-4-great-egret-with-breeding-plumes-blowing-in-breeze.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220202-4-great-egret-with-breeding-plumes-blowing-in-breeze-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220202-4-great-egret-with-breeding-plumes-blowing-in-breeze-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220202-4-great-egret-with-breeding-plumes-blowing-in-breeze-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220202-4-great-egret-with-breeding-plumes-blowing-in-breeze-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Great Egret with Breeding Plumes Blowing in the Wind<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\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\/egrets\/\">Egrets<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/gary-walker-photography\/galleries\/nature\/birds\/herons\/\">Herons<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the city of Venice, FL is a very small pond with a little island on one end. Each year the island becomes home to dozens of herons, egrets and cormorants that build their nests and raise their young. It is a photographer and birder magnet because the island and its birds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-9681","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\/220202-5-great-egret-with-breeding-plumes.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681","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=9681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109150,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681\/revisions\/109150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}