Stormy Snowy
by terranovabay
A Snowy Egret wanders the beach on a dark and stormy day.
Categories: Nature • Tags: beach, Egretta thula, Snowy Egret
Tag: Snowy Egret
Probing the other side
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A Snowy Egret looks like it has made contact with its own reflection as it forages for prey in a mudflat at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Egretta thula, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, MINWR, Snowy Egret
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
Stick Marsh Action in Two Parts – Part 1
by terranovabay
The Blue Cypress Conservation Area is part of the 52,671-acre Upper St. Johns River Basin Project. Drained for agriculture in the early 1900s, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers is trying to reestablish a semblance of extensive wetland habitats that defined the area prior to its disruption. The Conservation Area is home to many species of wildlife, including two islands newly adopted near the Stick Marsh boat launch as rookeries for Roseate Spoonbills and other wading birds. Stick Marsh Action […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, Anhinga, Anhinga anhinga, Aramus guarauna, Ardea alba, Blue Cypress Conservation Area, Egretta thula, Fellsmere, Fellsmere Grade Road, Limpkin, Platalea ajaja, Roseate Spoonbill, Snowy Egret, St. Johns River, Stick Marsh
Great Blue Quietude
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Great Blue Herons along the shore of Lake Apopka in Florida. A Great Blue Heron stands atop a downed utility pole. This was taken shortly after Hurricane Matthew but the storm may not have been the cause of the toppled pole, which was a bit of a mystery. That’s a Snowy Egret looking inconspicuous in size and attitude higher up on the pole at right. Ardea herodias in stately display.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Ardea herodias, Florida, Great Blue Heron, Hurricane Matthew, Lake Apopka, Lake County, Snowy Egret
Inlet Interlude
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A sampling of bird images from an afternoon visit to Sebastian Inlet State Park. Snowy Egret Great Blue Heron Cormorant Cormorant choking down a fish. Red-breasted Mergansers Red-breasted Mergansers Little Blue Heron Magnificent Frigatebird Ruddy Turnstones Ruddy Turnstone Brown Pelican
Categories: Nature • Tags: Brown Pelican, Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Little Blue Heron, Magnificent Frigatebird, Red-breasted Merganser, Ruddy Turnstone, Sebastian Inlet State Park, Snowy Egret
Orlando Wetlands Action Shots
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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
March Bird Count
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Here is a gallery of images from the first Monday of the month bird count at the Indian River Club. Thank you to Joe Carroll, Roz James, and Tina Marchese for letting me tag along once again. A family of Sandhill Cranes forage along the edge of the golf course. The young Cranes are incredibly cute. Loggerhead Shrike Mottled Ducks Snowy Egret Spotted Sandpiper Mottled Duck goes airborne. An Osprey moments before liftoff. A Cattle Egret preens atop a car […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: bird count, Cattle Egret, golf cart, golf course, Indian River Club, Indian River County, Loggerhead Shrike, Mottled Duck, Osprey, Sandhill Crane, Snowy Egret, Spotted Sandpiper, Vero Beach, wildlife photography
Winter Sunset at Merritt Island NWR
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These images were a real challenge to take light wise during a quick trip down Wildlife Drive at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge at sunset on Tuesday with Susan Boyd. With rapidly fading light and a fairly cold, brisk wind there was little opportunity to mull over the array of photogenic birds on hand. Instead, one took what one could get in the rapidly fading light as quickly as possible before the light was lost. I lament to this moment […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: American Alligator, Brevard County, ducks, Florida, Great Blue Heron, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, MINWR, Northern Pintail, Roseate Spoonbill, Snowy Egret, Titusville, wildlife photography, Willet
