Great Blue Heron | Stick Marsh
by terranovabay
A Great Blue Heron in the early morning light at the Stick Marsh.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Ardea herodias, Fellsmere, Great Blue Heron, Stick Marsh
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Roseate Spoonbill Video Sampler
by terranovabay
A short video of the Roseate Spoonbills at the Stick Marsh in Fellsmere, Florida. The birds are on a rookery island in a designated Critical Wildlife Area.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Critical Wildlife Area, Fellsmere, Platalea ajaja, Roseate Spoonbill, Stick Marsh
AEHF-6
by terranovabay
A hot and hazy day made for murky launch photos as a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carried into orbit the first mission for the U.S. Space Force on 26 March 2020 at 4:18 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The sixth launch of an Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite went off without a hitch after a slight delay and as the rocket climbed higher above the hazy ground into clearer air the view became much better […]
Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Advanced Extremely High Frequency, AEHF-6, Atlas V, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, ULA, United Launch Alliance
Stick Marsh Spoonbill
by terranovabay
A Roseate Spoonbill flying at sunset at the Stick Marsh.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Platalea ajaja, Roseate Spoonbill, Stick Marsh
Launch Traffic
by terranovabay
The cars are bumper-to-bumper on the the Max Brewer Bridge going over the Indian River Lagoon in Titusville after the 15 March 2020 scrub of Starlink 5. It looks like a pain but actually the traffic was moving quite well and we were out of it in a few minutes.
Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Max Brewer Bridge, Starlink, Titusville
Dawn Hunter
by terranovabay
An Osprey hovers over the Mosquito Lagoon while hunting for fish in the gray predawn light.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, MINWR, Mosquito Lagoon, Osprey, Pandion haliaetus
Pied-billed Grebe | MINWR
by terranovabay
Placid water reflects the image of a Pied-billed Grebe at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, MINWR, Pied-billed Grebe, Podilymbus podiceps
Good Hygiene
by terranovabay
A preening Turkey Vulture at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. A lesson in cleanliness for us all.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Cathartes aura, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, MINWR, Turkey Vulture
Sunrise over the Mosquito Lagoon
by terranovabay
Sunrise over the Mosquito Lagoon at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, MINWR, Mosquito Lagoon, sunrise
Starlink 5 Launch Video
by terranovabay
Video from an untended camera left to run on its own while I took still photographs of the launch of the sixth group of Starlink satellites. Click to view the Starlink 5 still image gallery.
Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Falcon 9, SpaceX, Starlink
