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MATERNITY WARD
SELF | 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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1 posted on 05/09/2009 12:48:32 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
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2 posted on 05/09/2009 12:49:31 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

While all the photographs are beautiful, the first one was breathtaking. Thank you so much!


3 posted on 05/09/2009 12:52:40 AM PDT by BruceysMom (My dumb heart has now ran off to Hermiston.)
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Cool!
4 posted on 05/09/2009 12:53:03 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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Thanks, I wish all human mothers were as dedicated as this bunch are. The males are hauling in food too!


5 posted on 05/09/2009 12:57:59 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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Oh, that is just precious SwampSniper...thank you.


6 posted on 05/09/2009 12:58:05 AM PDT by Cindy
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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!

7 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)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
I should have gone earlier,

Wouldn't the birds have been off catching worms?

8 posted on 05/09/2009 1:55:46 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: gusopol3; SWAMPSNIPER

Thanks for starting my Saturday off with a smile!
:)


9 posted on 05/09/2009 3:48:05 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Those eggs are a gorgous blue.


10 posted on 05/09/2009 3:55:26 AM PDT by Biggirl (Muffin, THANKS for 10 Years Of Friendship=^..^=)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Stunning! ;-D


11 posted on 05/09/2009 4:01:48 AM PDT by Daffynition ("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
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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.


12 posted on 05/09/2009 4:12:24 AM PDT by pandoraou812 (elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Your pictures are so beautiful.

Thank you so much.


13 posted on 05/09/2009 4:34:01 AM PDT by siamesecats
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

We were there last summer. It was worth every penny. My running commentary during the tortoises mating embarassed my kids horribly.


14 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.)
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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.


15 posted on 05/09/2009 6:05:12 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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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!


16 posted on 05/09/2009 6:08:25 AM PDT by 3D-JOY
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Thank you swampsniper.....


17 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)
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Beautiful. Thanks SS


18 posted on 05/09/2009 7:36:48 AM PDT by Grammy
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

very nice. Thanks!


19 posted on 05/09/2009 7:43:13 AM PDT by uncitizen
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Theses are some of your best, IMHO.


20 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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