{"id":182027,"date":"2015-09-01T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=ab595fad8e68cdac3f73aaa9f2337e0f"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:58:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:58:01","slug":"lake-apopka-wildlife-drive-8212015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/lake-apopka-wildlife-drive-8212015\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive, 8\/21\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past Saturday I visited the wildlife drive at Lake Apopka. I was hoping to get some nice migrant activity, and I was not disappointed.<\/p>\n

Yellow Warblers were everywhere! I estimated 20 of them, but I think I underestimated. In one little spot along the lakeshore there were perhaps 10 Yellow Warblers, 2 Prothonotary Warblers, 5 Prairie Warblers, 1 Northern Waterthrush, 1 Louisiana Waterthrush, and an Acadian Flycatcher.<\/p>\n

A couple herons posed for photos as well. A Black-crowned Night-Heron was perched along the edge of vegetation not far from my car (this photo is hardly cropped), and a Great Blue Heron also perched in the reeds for me.<\/p>\n

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Northern Waterthrush<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Yellow Warbler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was far less activity along the rest of the drive. There were hardly any shorebirds at the sod fields, oddly enough, and that was a little disappointing. However, I did get a nice photo of an Eastern Kingbird, which is always nice.<\/p>\n

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Eastern Kingbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Black-crowned Night-Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Great Blue Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This past Saturday I visited the wildlife drive at Lake Apopka. I was hoping to get some nice migrant activity, and I was not disappointed. Yellow Warblers were everywhere! I estimated 20 of them, but I think I underestimated. In one little spot along the lakeshore there were perhaps 10 Yellow Warblers, 2 Prothonotary Warblers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2196179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/08-21\/i-WTzDtbV\/0\/L\/_MG_5895-L.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[4751,992,3703,4205,4257,4752,2465],"class_list":["post-182027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-acadian-flycatcher","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-louisiana-waterthrush","tag-northern-waterthrush","tag-prairie-warbler","tag-prothonotary-warbler","tag-scott-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182027","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}