{"id":31504,"date":"2013-01-21T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=37ba030fcb5398f2fcd0cd69804229cb"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:37:00","slug":"jetty-park-1122013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/jetty-park-1122013\/","title":{"rendered":"Jetty Park, 1\/12\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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Brown Pelican<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Yesterday morning I went out to Jetty Park near Port Canaveral. I went there to see gulls. I wanted to see black-backed gulls, but I was also hoping to get better at identifying immature gulls. I’m getting pretty good at identifying adult gulls, but immatures still give me some trouble at times. I didn’t realize that, since I’m not a Brevard County resident, I would be charged $10 to enter the park. But I got over that irritation when I got out of the car and right off the bat found one adult Great Black-backed Gull, and then five minutes later, an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull. Then I saw three Bonaparte’s Gulls floating in the water. As I walked over to the beach, I found younger gulls to test my ID skills. The one below is a Lesser Black-backed Gull.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Lesser Black-backed Gull<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

But the gull below gave me some trouble.It was a large gull, and I’m thinking it’s a first year Great Black-backed Gull, given its large size, wing pattern, the color of the legs, and that enormous black bill.The fish must have either escaped a fisherman’s hook or an Osprey’s talons, and this gull was the beneficiary. It was very timid about it, tough. When people walked by, it would walk away from the fish, I had to keep my distance in order to let it feel comfortable enough to go to work on the fish..<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Great Black-backed Gull with Fish<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Great Black-backed Gull with Fish<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Other highlights were many Brown Pelicans, a couple Reddish Egrets, one Common Loon, many Royal Terns, and one Sandwich Tern.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Brown Pelican<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Royal Tern<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Royal Tern<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Reddish Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning I went out to Jetty Park near Port Canaveral. I went there to see gulls. I wanted to see black-backed gulls, but I was also hoping to get better at identifying immature gulls. I’m getting pretty good at identifying adult gulls, but immatures still give me some trouble at times. I didn’t realize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2145766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[758,1294,1607,30,1611,2465],"class_list":["post-31504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-brown-pelican","tag-great-black-backed-gull","tag-lesser-black-backed-gull","tag-reddish-egret","tag-royal-tern","tag-scott-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31504","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=31504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}