{"id":10848,"date":"2012-05-27T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=10848"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:23:22","slug":"snowy-egret-show-me-those-golden-slippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/snowy-egret-show-me-those-golden-slippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Egret \u2013 Show Me Those Golden Slippers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was photographing at Fort De Soto’s north beach on May 30th, 2008 when I had a very cooperative Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) start fishing in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico right in front of me.<\/p>\n

People have nicknamed Snowy Egrets “Golden Slippers” because of their yellow feet, this image really shows off those yellow feet. I have a very nice series of images of this Snowy, all of them photographed with me sitting on the sand instead of laying on it like I do for smaller shorebirds. I still had Sandy Pants at the end of the day though.<\/p>\n

Love that beautiful snowy white plumage against the rich blues of the Gulf!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Snowy Egret about to land – Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/1600, ISO 200, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 185mm, natural light, not baited<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Mia McPherson, OntheWingPhotography.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was photographing at Fort De Soto’s north beach on May 30th, 2008 when I had a very cooperative Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) start fishing in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico right in front of me. People have nicknamed Snowy Egrets “Golden Slippers” because of their yellow feet, this image really shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2192169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/snowy-egret-mia-mcpherson-0162.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","ngg_tag-animals","ngg_tag-bird","ngg_tag-acorn-woodpecker-melanerpes-formicivorus","ngg_tag-andes","ngg_tag-animal","ngg_tag-animalia","ngg_tag-aves","ngg_tag-avian-2","ngg_tag-bird-watching","ngg_tag-birds-2","ngg_tag-birdwatching","ngg_tag-colombia","ngg_tag-glenn-bartley","ngg_tag-nature","ngg_tag-neotropical","ngg_tag-south-america-2","ngg_tag-spot-crowned-barbet-capito-maculicoronatus","ngg_tag-wildlife-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}