Posts Tagged ‘Great Blue Heron’

Turkey Buzzard

Turkey Buzzard

Turkey Buzzard

Turkey Buzzard

Mist rising off a pond

Great Blue Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Wood Stork

Wood Stork

Wood Stork

Century Plant in bloom

Great Blue Heron

Boat-tailed Grackle chasing a Great Egret

Roseate Spoonbill

Roseate Spoonbill

Great Egret flies past Sandhill Crane family

Great Blue Heron standing in the rain

Great Blue Heron

Common Gallinule

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Small alligator relaxing

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron fishing

Great Blue Heron fishing

Great Blue Heron fishing

Great Blue Heron with fish

Great Blue Heron with fish

Great Blue Heron with fish

Great Blue Heron with fish

Great Blue Heron with fish

Great Blue Heron with fish

Great Blue Heron rinsing fish before dinner

Great Blue Heron eating fish

Great Blue Heron eating fish

Great Blue Heron eating fish

Great Blue Heron eating fish

Great Blue Heron swallowing fish

This is an agave americana, commonly known as a century plant or century cactus. This one is probably 10 or 20 years old. That 20′ spike in the center has appeared only in the past few weeks. Soon the spike will flower and the plant will die.

Another century plant, this one about 12′ high. We’ll monitor them and post photos when they flower.

Boat-tailed Grackle

Dragonflies are hard to photograph. I’ll have to keep trying.

Dragonfly

Dragonfly

Dragonfly

Sandhill Crane

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Killdeer

Killdeer chick

Killdeer

Alligator

Osprey

Juvenile Anhingas

Juvenile Anhingas (one scratching)

Juvenile Anhingas

Juvenile Anhingas

Juvenile Anhingas

Food has arrived and these juvenile anhingas are very interested

Red-shouldered Hawk on a tree

Swallow-tailed Kite

Swallow-tailed Kite

Swallow-tailed Kite

Swallow-tailed Kite

Swallow-tailed Kite

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-shouldered Hawk

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Alligator

Limpkin

Limpkin extracting succulent clam from its shell

Meanwhile, these Black Vultures have other ideas of what constitutes a tasty treat

Yes, you are a dirty bird.

Black Vulture dining

Great Blue Heron dining on a catfish

Northern Cardinal

Great Blue Heron

Boat-tailed Grackle

Young Tricolored Heron

Young Tricolored Heron

Young Tricolored Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Two Anhinga chicks (there were three)

Anhinga announces his arrival

Anhinga arrivals and departures

Anhinga chicks eager to be fed

Anhinga chick feeding

Room for one more?

Anhinga chick feeding

Anhinga chick feeding

Anhinga chick feeding

Anhinga chick feeding

I think the first chick emptied the tank

The other Anhinga chick isn’t going to get anything

Common Gallinule

Sandhill Crane Happy Dance begins

Sandhill Crane dancing

Sandhill Crane dancing

Sandhill Crane dancing

Sandhill Crane dancing

Sandhill Crane dancing

Sandhill Crane dancing

Sandhill Crane dancing

Not being familiar with the choreography. I was not ready for the jump

Sandhill Crane dancing

Sandhill Crane dancing

Sandhill Crane dancing

Sandhill Crane dance ends