{"id":33964,"date":"2013-02-22T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=9aef4ab2e5c2f159cc04d5808990bc47"},"modified":"2024-11-22T14:15:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T13:15:29","slug":"mead-gardens-2132013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/mead-gardens-2132013\/","title":{"rendered":"Mead Gardens, 2\/13\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a sure sign that Spring is returning to Central Florida this morning at Mead Gardens–the lovely sound of Northern Parula singing in the Live Oak trees. It’s a very welcome sound, and I found about 5 this morning, though none posed for photographs. A pair of Wood Ducks, however, were just begging to get their pictures taken. They were sitting on a tree branch which hangs over the water (one of their favorite places to perch), and I couldn’t help but fire off a ton of shots of one of my favorite ducks.<\/p>\n

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The Northern Parula were accompanied by Blue-gray Gnatcatchers (they sure know how to strike a pose!), Ruby-crowned Kinglets, American Goldfinch, Palm Warblers, Yellow-rumped Warblers, and a nice Black-and-white Warbler. Gray Catbirds and Carolina Wrens also frequently made their presence known. I also found about three Hermit Thrushes, which is always a treat.<\/p>\n

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But the highlight of the morning was finding the Rufous Hummingbird that has been wintering in the Gardens. I normally arrive and leave early, and I suspect I’ve just been missing her. But this morning was warm, and I found her for the first time this year in the butterfly garden.<\/p>\n

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There was a sure sign that Spring is returning to Central Florida this morning at Mead Gardens–the lovely sound of Northern Parula singing in the Live Oak trees. It’s a very welcome sound, and I found about 5 this morning, though none posed for photographs. A pair of Wood Ducks, however, were just begging to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2192779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2013\/02-13\/i-7gwcP3b\/0\/L\/_MG_9169-L.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Mead Gardens, 2\/13\/2013","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[3317,32,842,3318,1200,2465,1619],"class_list":["post-33964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-blue-gray-gnatcatcher","tag-florida","tag-gray-catbird","tag-mead-gardens","tag-rufous-hummingbird","tag-scott-simmons","tag-wood-duck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33964","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=33964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}