Posted on 08/21/2016 3:14:07 PM PDT by Islander7
It's been 2 1/2 months since the last birdy thread was posted. Florida is a bit too hot for this old man to get out and shoot much in high summer. However, today I had a visitor. A little blue heron was feeding on my front lawn. That seemed a tad unusual.
There was also a flock of white ibis. This time of year the ibis begin to gather in larger and larger flocks preparing for their winter migration. I got a face shot of this youngster. Their eyes are cool
Several weeks ago I saw a family of Florida Mottled ducks on lake Jackson. This family started out with 10 hatchlings, only 2 appear to have survived. Snakes, raccoons and gators have to eat too.
Then there is my new favorite bird, the limpkin.
For good measure, here's a shot of yesterdays sunset on Lake Jackson.
Birdy ping!
Beautiful pictures! Thank you! :-)
Beautiful. Thank you.
Fantastic.
Beautiful pictures. I understand about it being too hot to get out there.
We have bird feeders and bird baths that we can watch from our den. Do we have have the birds, wow!
As a born and raised Floridian, thank you!
cool pictures - the heron’s foot looks like a branch LOL
beautiful sky!
Thanks for posting :)
I rarely see flocks of Ibis or Blue Heron. Usually just one bird at a time. The only time I do see them congregate in great numbers is when they are feeding or ‘taking a sun bath’,
before dusk. Very different than the ducks and the geese. Family seems to be everything for the Canadian Goose. They appear to hunt for food together. This may be similar to elephants. The young male elephants are often shooed away from the herd by the older males. Maybe there are parallels with winged birds.
Where is Lake Jackson?
Nice photos.
Which Lake Jackson? There are a bunch of them in Florida.
Look at God’s perfection of feather color, size, placement and overlay! Amazing.
A small pond southwest of Jackson, Wyoming.
The brown tree snakes that the Japanese army accidentally brought here from Malaysia in WW2 have eaten most of the native birds here. As a result Guam has more spiders, insects and snails than to possibly imagine but very few birds
Thanks for the photos. I was born and raised in Florida and have seen all of these birds. Brings back memories of growing up on a lake myself. I live in the Colorado Rockies now, but I have a pine tree farm in Bay County, FL.
I need to get a slide scanner. I have many bird photos including whooping cranes from Lake Kissimmee, FL. Prayers out to Swampsniper who has left us for a better place.
Nature and all the inhabitants thereof, is proof of God’s creation. Darwinian evolution had one purpose in mind: to remove a Creator from the picture and have everything “evolve” out of nothing. Ergo no Creator is needed and we have everything that follows: no basis for morality, and all the rest in politics and every sphere of life.
Thanks for the effort
Here in S.E. Michigan, within 15 miles of me there are two swamp areas with dead trees that are homes to Blue Heron rookeries.......I never knew they nested high up in dead trees until I saw them for the first time........pretty cool
Your picture doesn't look like a small pond......
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