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This large frog, most likely a Cuban Tree Frog, surprised me by its presence as I found the trail blocked by a fallen palm frond. If you live in Florida you would understand the many variations of reptile and insect surprises.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Cuban Tree Frog, frog, Osteopilus septentrionalis
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Parallel Pelicans
Categories: Nature • Tags: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis
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Revisiting a walk with Sam the dog out at Treasure Hammock Ranch for National Dog Day. I finally make it out to Treasure Hammock Ranch for a walk with Susan Boyd and, of course, what had been a sunny day turns cloudy with rain moving in. Still, though it was fairly dark and cloudy, there were still some good bird pictures to be teased out of the gloom. Here is a sampling. . . . Sean Sexton and Dino wait […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: American Kestrel, Calves, cattle, Cows, dog, Eastern Meadowlark, Indian River County, Loggerhead Shrike, Love Bugs, Mike Sexton, National Dog Day, radish, Sandhill Crane, Sean Sexton, Susan Boyd, Treasure Hammock Ranch, turnip, Vero Beach, wildlife photography
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Eastern Cottontail Rabbit in the grass at Riverside Park.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Eastern Cottontail, Indian River County, rabbit, Riverside Park, Sylvilagus floridanus, Vero Beach
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The storm clouds cleared away almost at the last minute to allow the CRS-18 resupply mission to the International Space Station take flight on 25 July 2019. The launch photos will have to stay dormant for awhile in the camera until at least this weekend when I can find time to work on them. In the meantime, enjoy this image of two Brown Pelicans winging their way over Port Canaveral taken while waiting for the launch.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Brown Pelican, CRS-18, Pelecanus occidentalis, Port Canaveral
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Excited to report that this image of birds congregating in an impoundment at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge has been selected for inclusion in interpretive panels being placed along the Greens Bayou Greenway trail in Houston, Texas. The sign copy includes information about Pelican Island as the first National Wildlife Refuge. From the OspreyWatch project.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Greens Bayou Greenway, Houston, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, PINWR, Snowy Egret, Texas, Tricolored Heron, Wood Stork
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A Red-tailed Hawk circles overhead while foraging for prey on the ground below at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. From the OspreyWatch project.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Buteo jamaicensis, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, PINWR, Red-tailed Hawk
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The craggy face of a Wood Stork seems to know all at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. From the OspreyWatch project.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Mycteria americana, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, PINWR, Wood Stork
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Moving on with Part 2 of the visit to Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area. Continuing on through the prairie The slough Green Heron Red-shouldered Hawk Limpkin Turkey Vulture warming in the Sun Dragonfly in an obelisking pose to reduce its surface area in relation to the Sun in an attempt to cool off. Turkey Vulture in flight An American Alligator in the slough A large water control device between the lakes is a natural draw. Juvenile alligator Cypress dome. From […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Agelaius phoeniceus, Alligator mississippiensis, American Alligator, Aramus guarauna, Buteo lineatus, Butorides virescens, Cathartes aura, Cypress Dome, Eastern Lubber Grasshopper, Elanoides forficatus, Eudocimus albus, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, FWC, Green Heron, Limpkin, Mimus polyglottos, Northern Mockingbird, Odocoileus virginianus, Pine Flatwood, Prairie, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-winged Blackbird, Romalea microptera, Swallow-tailed Kite, Three Lakes, Three Lakes Ranch, Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area, Turkey Vulture, White Ibis, White-tailed Deer, WMA
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Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area ( Three Lakes WMA) in Central Florida is a former ranch, the eponymous Three Lakes Ranch, comprising 63,000-acres that today protects one of the largest extant Florida dry prairie ecosystems. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Three Lakes WMA is “a mosaic of dry and wet prairie, ephemeral depression ponds and marshes, mesic (moist) flat woods, hammocks, and cypress ponds and sloughs. Diversity, both in plant and animal life, distinguishes Florida’s dry […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Agelaius phoeniceus, Alligator mississippiensis, American Alligator, Aramus guarauna, Buteo lineatus, Butorides virescens, Cathartes aura, Cypress Dome, Eastern Lubber Grasshopper, Elanoides forficatus, Eudocimus albus, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, FWC, Green Heron, Limpkin, Mimus polyglottos, Northern Mockingbird, Odocoileus virginianus, Pine Flatwood, Prairie, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-winged Blackbird, Romalea microptera, Swallow-tailed Kite, Three Lakes, Three Lakes Ranch, Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area, Turkey Vulture, White Ibis, White-tailed Deer, WMA
