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Young Adult White Ibis White Ibis have been occasionally strolling around the neighborhood looking for tasty bites in the lawns and gardens here. Our weather has been rainy with nearly daily thunderstorms happening in the afternoon hours. I have not been out and about much both due to the weather and my husband being ill. I did go out… Continue reading White Ibis, Great Egret, and Muscovy Ducks
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Purple Gallinule Please click on the thumbnail to see the slightly larger version of that photo. Enjoy! Pied-billed Grebe Common Moorhen Coots Continue reading Wordless Wednesday: Water Birds
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Great Blue Herons are commonly seen here in Central Florida including The Villages. These wading birds are very tall, are grey, black, and white with a long sharp yellow bill. The Great Blue Herons are wading birds that frequent ponds, marshes, rivers, and lakes. The Great Blue Herons are champion hunters as they eat a wide variety of different… Continue reading Great Blue Herons in Central Florida
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Is this a Red-tailed Hawk or is the bird pictured here Red-shouldered Hawk? I will say it has yellow eyes so maybe it is a younger adult or older juvenile. It appeared to be pretty large in size. I took the photographs on Saturday June 20, 2019 in The Villages, Florida on CR 466, East of Buena Vista a… Continue reading A Perched Hawk: Which Species?
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This Wood Stork was hunting for dinner at the small pond at Freedom Pointe in The Villages, Florida when I photographed the exotic bird on Saturday, July 20, 2019 in the later afternoon. The Wood Storks have seldom been around the community in recent months. Some are beginning to come our way as the weather changes. Wood Storks hunt… Continue reading A Lone Wood Stork
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Double-crested Cormorants at the Freedom Pointe Lake Wading birds, ducks, exotic geese, cormorants, and egrets were all spotted in The Villages, FL this past weekend. It was so fun to see five resident White Pelicans at the Nancy Lopez course. Those pelicans have now been here for the past three years and apparently do not migrate North with the… Continue reading White Pelican, Cormorants, Heron, Egrets, Egyptian Geese and Ducks
