{"id":34705,"date":"2013-03-01T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=84b245e7ca3f774dad15a7c6a3243a7e"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:39:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:39:49","slug":"a-limpkin-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/a-limpkin-family\/","title":{"rendered":"A Limpkin Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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Limpkin Chick<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

This morning I drove to one of my favorite places near Lake Jesup, and I happened to find a family of Limpkins. Mom and Dad were both feeding their four little chicks, and it looks like they just recently hatched. I usually only come here occasionally for just a few minutes to see what ducks may be floating out on Lake Jesup, but now I think I’ll have to come here once a week or so and check up on these little ones. I’m always amazed at how tender the adults can be in caring for their chicks. I kept my distance from them, and while occasionally they would come relatively close to me, most of these photos are pretty heavily cropped.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Limpkin with Chick<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Limpkin with Chick<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Limpkin with Chick<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Limpkin with Chick<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Limpkin with Chick<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Limpkin with Chick<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Limpkin with Chick<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Limpkin with Chick<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I drove to one of my favorite places near Lake Jesup, and I happened to find a family of Limpkins. Mom and Dad were both feeding their four little chicks, and it looks like they just recently hatched. I usually only come here occasionally for just a few minutes to see what ducks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2145990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[3245,1906,2465],"class_list":["post-34705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-lake-jesup","tag-limpkin","tag-scott-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34705","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=34705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}