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 | May 09,2009
 | swampsniper
Posted on 05/09/2009 12:48:32 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
From the St. Augustine gator farm rookery, every stage from eggs to half grown chicks. The smaller herons and egrets are just getting started, the stork and great egret chicks are growing like crazy.
 I should have gone earlier, the light would have been better for catching white feather details.

 

 

 

 

TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: birds; florida; nest
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posted on 
05/09/2009 12:49:31 AM PDT
by 
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A  MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
 
To: SWAMPSNIPER
    While all the photographs are beautiful, the first one was breathtaking. Thank you so much!
 
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posted on 
05/09/2009 12:52:40 AM PDT
by 
BruceysMom
(My dumb heart has now ran off to Hermiston.)
 
To: SWAMPSNIPER
    Cool!
 
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posted on 
05/09/2009 12:53:03 AM PDT
by 
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
 
To: JoeProBono
    Thanks, I wish all human mothers were as dedicated as this bunch are. The males are hauling in food too!
 
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posted on 
05/09/2009 12:57:59 AM PDT
by 
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A  MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
 
To: SWAMPSNIPER
    Oh, that is just precious SwampSniper...thank you.
 
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posted on 
05/09/2009 12:58:05 AM PDT
by 
Cindy
 
To: SWAMPSNIPER
    "I should have gone earlier, the light would have been better for catching white feather details."
  
I have no idea why you say that.
Your pictures are a Godsend, whenever you take them.
God love you for posting such beautiful pictures.
It's distracting, and I love it!
 
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posted on 
05/09/2009 1:01:16 AM PDT
by 
dixiechick2000
(I don't make jokes.  I just watch the government and report the facts. ~~ Will Rodgers)
 
To: SWAMPSNIPER
    I should have gone earlier, Wouldn't the birds have been off catching worms?
 
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posted on 
05/09/2009 1:55:46 AM PDT
by 
gusopol3
 
To: gusopol3; SWAMPSNIPER
    Thanks for starting my Saturday off with a smile!
:)
 
To: SWAMPSNIPER
    Those eggs are a gorgous blue.
 
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posted on 
05/09/2009 3:55:26 AM PDT
by 
Biggirl
(Muffin, THANKS for 10 Years Of Friendship=^..^=)
 
To: SWAMPSNIPER
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posted on 
05/09/2009 4:01:48 AM PDT
by 
Daffynition
("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
 
To: SWAMPSNIPER
    Wonderful pictures to wake up & see first thing in the morning... I have a huge blue heron trying to eat my koi fish from my pond. I don’t know how many fish he got before I got the net over the pond.
 
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posted on 
05/09/2009 4:12:24 AM PDT
by 
pandoraou812
(elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
 
To: SWAMPSNIPER
    Your pictures are so beautiful.
Thank you so much.
 
To: SWAMPSNIPER
    We were there last summer. It was worth every penny. My running commentary during the tortoises mating embarassed my kids horribly.
 
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posted on 
05/09/2009 4:37:47 AM PDT
by 
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
 
To: SWAMPSNIPER
    Thanks, beautiful.
Had a pleasant surprise yesterday and this morning. A first at my feeder.
A rose-breasted grosbeak.
Gonna be a good day.
 
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posted on 
05/09/2009 6:05:12 AM PDT
by 
Vinnie
(You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
 
To: SWAMPSNIPER
    How could the feather detail be any better than the last picture?
I love the blue eggs in the first one too! THANKS!
 
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posted on 
05/09/2009 6:08:25 AM PDT
by 
3D-JOY
 
To: SWAMPSNIPER
    Thank you swampsniper.....
 
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posted on 
05/09/2009 6:41:14 AM PDT
by 
Kimmers
(Be the kind of person when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, Oh crap, she's awake)
 
To: SWAMPSNIPER
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posted on 
05/09/2009 7:36:48 AM PDT
by 
Grammy
 
To: SWAMPSNIPER
To: SWAMPSNIPER
    Theses are some of your best, IMHO.
 
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posted on 
05/09/2009 11:14:42 AM PDT
by 
Gator113
(Weak-coward-racist-white hating-lying-traitor= Surrender Monkey in Chief-B. Hussein Obama...)
 
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