{"id":16118,"date":"2012-02-14T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=d86f636fb550fc40ad38b94531ab39cc"},"modified":"2014-11-25T10:38:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T09:38:30","slug":"merritt-island-wildlife-refuge-continues-to-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/merritt-island-wildlife-refuge-continues-to-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge Continues to Please"},"content":{"rendered":"

So far into the new year Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge has continued to be VERY active. There has been a good population of roseate spoonbills, america avocets, eagles, and all sorts of ducks. Let me see if I can list some of the ducks in good numbers, american widgeons, northern shovelers, pintails, hooded mergansers, ring-necked, lesser scaup and blue-winged teals, oh and also mallards.<\/p>\n

This year we had a rare appearance of the horned grebe in winter, non breeding plumage. The reddish egrets are back also in great numbers along with the white morphs. The last time I was out there, I had six reddish egrets along with two white morphs fishing in front of me. Most of my visits have been along Black Point Drive, which is always a good place to start your visit.<\/p>\n

There is a new $5.00 fee per day for Black Point Drive and a few of the other roads, or a seasons pass for $15.00. Do not hesitate! It is for a good cause and is well worth it for seeing some of Florida’s avian treasures!<\/p>\n

All images are copyrighted by Nancy Elwood and Naturesportal.<\/p>\n

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So far into the new year Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge has continued to be VERY active. There has been a good population of roseate spoonbills, america avocets, eagles, and all sorts of ducks. Let me see if I can list some of the ducks in good numbers, american widgeons, northern shovelers, pintails, hooded mergansers, ring-necked, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":45407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Merritt-Island-_30S5624-120107-copy-L.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1120,999,1334,1338,2088,7797,30,33],"class_list":["post-16118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-american-avocet","tag-blue-winged-teal","tag-hooded-merganser","tag-lesser-scaup","tag-merritt-island-wildlife-refuge","tag-northern-shoveler","tag-reddish-egret","tag-roseate-spoonbill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16118","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\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}