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Bird Photos May 2022

Monday May 30 – Memorial Day. 74° light breeze kicking  up 4 to 6 inch waves. Quite bumpy in the bay.

Dawn
Two dolphins.
Allan sent over his photo of two dolphins.
The nose of a manatee.
A Mocking Bird.
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican at rest.
Juvenile Little Green Heron
Look at that fuzzy top of his head! A juvenile Little Green Heron.
Osprey at the north end of the island.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
Great Blue and a Duck way up the Bear Creek.
Snowy fishing.
Snowy Egret.
Snowy with a snack.
Snowy
Little Blue Heron
Little Blue
Ibis up in a longleaf pine.
Ibis, unfortunately I clipped off the black tips of his wings.
Female Anhinga in the mangroves.
Female Millard Duck.
Juvenile

Ducklings following momma.

May 29, 2022, 70°. absolute calm most of the trip. A great day for dolphins!!

Before sunrise, clouds on the very horizon, cloudless otherwise.l
Sun glancing off of the glass.
Dolphis all around me! One sounded like it did a leap, but it was behind me, what a huge splash!!
A mother and her baby!
Mother and baby again.
Lots of dolphins!!
Osprey
Osprey
Snowy struking.
Snowy with a snack.
Snowy on the hunt.
Snowy with breakfast.
Snowy
Ducklings, they have very sharp toenails and can climb on slippery rocks.
Mother and four ducklings.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Little Green Heron.
Little Green Heron
A little Green Heron fishing.
Little Green Heron
Gret Blue Heron
Great Blue
Great Blue

May 28, 2022, 75°, no wind at first, 5 to 8 mph on return – out of the west.

Dawn
Mullet swimming in a school.
Sea grape, they say the fruit makes good jelly.
Red Mangrove with seeds almost ready to drop.
Conures on the wing.
Little Green
Juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Detail of Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Ducks are growing up.
Ducklings picking sea creatures off the sea wall.
Snowy
Snowy
Great Blue Heron in the mangroves.
Regal looking Osprey.
Egret striking at a fish.
Egret
Egret
Egret in the mangroves.

May 26, 2022, 77°, sun and clouds. Wind picked up to 10 mph and 4 inch waves.

Dawn
I keep seeing coconuts floating, now I see why!
Yellow floats with silt barrier used during construction, but what construction?
Ibis with pouch still.
Another Ibis.
Ibis
Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
Detail of Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
Little Green Heron.
Egret
Egret fishing
Egret
Ducklings
Allan sent over this photo of a Great Blue sitting on his dock!
The Great Blue was still there when I came by!
The wind was flipping up his feathers!
That feather must have been annoying!
Osprey right overhead! They were enjoying all the wind we are getting.
I love how his feet just tangle his talons right together.

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