{"id":41022,"date":"2013-06-25T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=1c110829451fabe207131654318a8f11"},"modified":"2024-06-17T14:33:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T13:33:56","slug":"yellow-crowned-night-heron-on-wekiva-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/yellow-crowned-night-heron-on-wekiva-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow-crowned Night Heron on Wekiva River"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon after work I took a kayak down the Wekiva River for about an hour to see what I could find for my June Challenge (finding as many birds as you can in one county during the month of June). It was really fun to find a Yellow-crowned Night Heron nest. I saw one adult with two chicks (the photo below shows one pretty clearly and a bump for the second. Unfortunately, these are the best looks I was able to get of the birds–a somewhat cluttered background, but these are the first I’ve ever seen in Seminole County, so I thought I’d share.<\/p>\n

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Yellow-crowned Night Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Yellow-crowned Night Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This afternoon after work I took a kayak down the Wekiva River for about an hour to see what I could find for my June Challenge (finding as many birds as you can in one county during the month of June). It was really fun to find a Yellow-crowned Night Heron nest. I saw one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2193030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2013\/06-18\/i-9LX2zzS\/0\/L\/_MG_5029-L.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Yellow-crowned Night Heron on Wekiva River","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2465,7757],"class_list":["post-41022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-scott-simmons","tag-yellow-crowned-night-heron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41022","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=41022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2193030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}