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? Anhinga Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the photo.  Enjoy! Double-crested Cormorant Left: Anhinga Right: Cormorant Anhinga ? ? Anhinga Double-crested Cormorants Double-crested Cormorants ? Continue reading Wordless Wednesday: The Difference Between Anhingas and Cormorants

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Juvenile White Ibis Great Egret Snowy Egret Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the photo.  Enjoy! Great Egret Tri-colored Heron Wood Stork ? Great Blue Heron Great Blue Heron Wood Stork Continue reading Wordless Fri.: Flying Waders

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This Great Egret was strolling around the front lawn of a neighbor of ours a few days ago.  It was the first time I have spotted a Great Egret on my street (we do have occasional flocks of White Ibis here though).  We live about a third of a mile from the little neighborhood lake, so the egret was… Continue reading A Living Lawn Ornament

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Sandhill Cranes The Winter migration is underway and more and more birds are arriving here in recent days.  This will continue through December or early January.  I have been seeing small flocks in the skies and on the shorelines of local lakes.  I also have included a photograph of some smaller freshwater turtles that happened to be sunning themselves… Continue reading More Birds Arriving

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Wood Storks occasionally visit The Villages, FL but usually we see maybe six or seven in one spot.  This morning I saw sixty Wood Storks, many of them juveniles, at the El Santiago Golf Course pond on the El Camino Avenue end near the multi-modal path. I think that due to the recent tropical storm to the NW of… Continue reading A Huge Flock of Wood Storks!

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White Pelicans &  Wood Stork at the Nancy Lopez Legacy Golf Pond I took these pictures early last evening 10/21/19 in The Villages, FL.  Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the picture.  Enjoy! Cormorants, Geese, Egrets, Herons at Freedom Pointe Lake Wood Storks at Freedom Pointe Lake Double-crested Cormorants at Freedom Pointe… Continue reading Almost Wordless Wednesday

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Male Northern Cardinal Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger picture.  Enjoy! Great Egret Florida Mottled Ducks White Pelicans, Mallard Ducks, Double-crested Cormorant Continue reading Almost Wordless Friday

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Alligators are fairly common here in Florida. Recently, I spotted Alligators in two places – a very small one in the shallows of Cherry Lake at Live Oaks Park in The Villages and an adult at what is known as “Fishing Pond” here in The Villages on Morse Blvd. I also saw a small flock of White Ibis and… Continue reading Ibis, Herons, and ‘Gators

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OspreyBir Please click on the thumbnail image.  Enjoy! Bald Eagle Sandhill Crane Great Blue Heron Continue reading Wild Wordless Wednesday