Critical Wildlife Area
by terranovabay
Sad that the Limpkin’s home most be preserved by mandate at the Stick Marsh Critical Wildlife Area.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Aramus guarauna, Limpkin, Stick Marsh Critical Wildlife Area
Tag: Aramus guarauna
what by nature cannot
by terranovabay
A Limpkin finds a meal and a mussel is soon to be remembered by its empty shell on the beach.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Aramus guarauna, Fellsmere, Limpkin, Mussel, Stick Marsh
Spooky Bird Calls
by terranovabay
The wail of a Limpkin in lonely dark places is enough to send shivers up one’s spine. The bird is not so spooky seen during the day looking for its favorite meal of mussels and clams.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Aramus guarauna, Fellsmere, Limpkin, Stick Marsh
Three Lakes WMA – Part 2 of 2
by terranovabay
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
Three Lakes WMA – Part 1 of 2
by terranovabay
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
Midday Limpkin
by terranovabay
A Limpkin flies over T.M. Goodwin Waterfowl Management Area under the glare of the midday sun.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Aramus guarauna, Limpkin, T.M. Goodwin Waterfowl Management Area
Limpkin showing some mussel
by terranovabay
A Limpkin with a Florida freshwater mussel struts along the water’s edge at the Stick Marsh.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Aramus guarauna, Limpkin, Mussel, Stick Marsh
Sighting a Snail
by terranovabay
A Limpkin homes in on its favorite food, the Apple Snail, at the Stick Marsh.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Apple Snail, Aramus guarauna, Limpkin, Stick Marsh
Limpkin Landscape
by terranovabay
A Limpkin forages along the shoreline at Egret Marsh Stormwater Park. The bird even moved along with its characteristic limp, which gives the Limpkin its name.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Aramus guarauna, Egret Marsh Stormwater Park, Limpkin
Stick Marsh Action in Two Parts – Part 2
by terranovabay
Continuing now with Part 2 of Stick Marsh Action in Two Parts. Great Egret against dark storm clouds. Head on view of a Roseate Spoonbill. Roseate Spoonbill Roseate Spoonbill Great Blue Heron walking dangerously close to an Alligator. Anhinga Snowy Egrets Roseate Spoonbill Roseate Spoonbill Great Egret Adult Roseate Spoonbill with a juvenile begging for food. Cattle Egret Great Egret Alligator Great Egret Great Egret Needless to say, the Alligators are attracted to the rookery islands on the off chance […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, Anhinga, Anhinga anhinga, Aramus guarauna, Ardea alba, Ardea herodias, Blue Cypress Conservation Area, Bubulcus ibis, Cattle Egret, Egretta thula, Fellsmere, Fellsmere Grade Road, Great Blue Heron, Limpkin, Platalea ajaja, Roseate Spoonbill, Snowy Egret, St. Johns River, Stick Marsh
