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Sam relaxes by the door in this panorama of Sean Sexton’s art studio at Treasure Hammock Ranch. Note the beginnings of a self-portrait and still life combination at extreme right. Click on image for a larger version.
Categories: Dog's Tail • Tags: art studio, Sean Sexton, Treasure Hammock Ranch
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Walking out at Treasure Hammock Ranch this afternoon I unexpectedly flushed a Red-shouldered Hawk out of a palm tree causing the hawk to circle repeatedly low overhead till I got past. Hard to see in the image, but the hawk’s beak was covered in red gore so the bird must have been interrupted while eating a meal. Once I got past the tree the hawk circled around and went back into the palm tree, most likely to finish the meal.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Red-shouldered Hawk, Treasure Hammock Ranch
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A few images including this one of the stormy seas and overcast sky on tonight’s beach walk with Janice and the dogs, Sam and Pepper. Sam at the Trespass House. Pepper relaxing on the beach.
Categories: Dog's Tail • Tags: beach walk, dog
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More selections from Sunday’s visit to the Orlando Wetlands Park on a dismally gray and overcast morning for a Pelican Island Audubon Society field trip led by Steve Goff and Susan Boyd. Pied-billed Grebe Blue-winged Teal Great Egret Great Blue Heron Black-Bellied Whistling-Ducks Sandhill Crane White Ibis (juvenile) Little Blue Heron (juvenile) American Coot Tricolored Heron
Categories: Nature • Tags: American Coot, Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, Blue-winged Teal, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Little Blue Heron, Orlando Wetlands Park, Pied-billed Grebe, Sandhill Crane, Tricolored Heron, White Ibis
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A selection of images from Sunday’s visit to the Orlando Wetlands Park as part of a Pelican Island Audubon Society field trip led by Steve Goff and Susan Boyd. The morning was dark and overcast during our visit so the lighting for picture taking left a lot to be desired. Roseate Spoonbill Roseate Spoonbill Barred Owl with a recent kill. Snowy Egret coming in for a landing. Red-shouldered Hawk carrying what could be material to build a nest with. Sandhill […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Alligator, Barred Owl, birding, Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, Orlando Wetlands Park, Pelican Island Audubon Society, Red-shouldered Hawk, River Otter, Roseate Spoonbill, Sandhill Crane, Snowy Egret, wildlife photography
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A collection of images from the superb Brevard Symphony Orchestra’s “once-in-a-lifetime concert experience beneath Space Shuttle Atlantis” at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. I thought I was being sly bringing in my pocket camera tucked into my jacket for the expected “cocktail attire” for the event, but should have known better when almost the entire well-dressed crowd was lugging around one sort of camera or another or, as most were doing, shooting pictures with their cell phones. All these […]
Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: astronaut, Atlantis exhibit, Brevard County, Brevard Symphony Orchestra, Darth Vader, Florida State University, Galactic Empire, Jedi, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Scout Trooper, Space Shuttle Atlantis, Star Wars, Stormtrooper, TARDIS, Winston Scott
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Spent late Thursday afternoon on through sunset with the Sandhill Crane family at Treasure Hammock Ranch and saw some very interesting things. The Crane family catches the last rays from the Sun for the day as they get ready to bed down for the night at the nest. The Crane family spent the day wandering around the pasture foraging. In this long distance shot, the two little colts are almost lost in the grass. The red arrows help point them […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: colt, nest, Sandhill Crane, Treasure Hammock Ranch, Wood Duck, Wood Stork
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The vigil is over. The Sandhill Cranes nesting on the little island in the wetlands at Treasure Hammock Ranch have hatched out two chicks — or to impress your birding friends with the proper lingo, young Sandhill Cranes are called “colts”. Here are some images and personal observations from the past two days. Note the egg shell between the two colts. The colt is not swimming in this image, but standing in the muck struggling to walk after its parents. […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: birding, colt, Mottled Ducks, Sandhill Cranes, Treasure Hammock Ranch, wetlands, Wood Ducks
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Once more in Riverview Park in Sebastian the Pelican Island Wildlife Festival presents its annual commemoration of the foundation of the National Wildlife Refuge System through an Executive Order of President Theodore Roosevelt on 14 March 1903 and the establishment of the nation’s first National Wildlife Refuge at nearby Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. Below are some images from the festival starting with the exhibit from the wildlife hospital of melancholy looking birds of prey who, for one reason or […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: birds of prey, Bottlenose Dolphin, Indian River Lagoon, National Wildlife Refuge System, Paul Kroegel, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, Pelican Island WIldlife Festival, President Theodore Roosevelt, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Riverview Park, Sebastian, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, USFWS
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A brief late afternoon visit to the beach at Bob Bruce and Janice Broda’s house allowed for some quick captures of some passing birds. Naturally, the Pelicans flew by as I was putting the camera away so I missed them. And did I mention that these photos were taken in the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, next door to Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, on the 111th Anniversary of the National Wildlife Refuge System! Moments before this Cormorant had been […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, beach, birding, Cormorant, National Wildlife Refuge System, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, Ring-billed Gull, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, USFWS, Willet
