Month: June 2022

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June Florida Birds

Thursday June 30, 2022. 78°, summy, light breeze.

Sun is up (actually this rock called earth is rotating!)
One of three dolphins Allan saw at hid dock.
Boss Raven
A Cormorant! He came right up out of the water near Allan's dock!
Short-tailed Hawk
Short-tailed Hawk, light morph.
Black Skimmer! There is too much wood and stuff in the water for him to skim!
Juvenile Little Green Heron
Adult
Duck
Egret
Juvenile Little Blue Heron
Ibis honoring the 4th of July..a little early.
With wattle!
Jyvenile Ibis
Juvenile Ibis, when he molts his new feathers will come in white.
Great Blue Heron
Pelican in flight
Workers re-roofing a house.

Wednesday, June 29, 2022. 82°, 81% humidity. Sunny, light breeze. The oyster bar was exposed for the first time in quite a while, so three Ibis and two Oyster Catchers took advantage of it. I took a lot of photos! I got photos of 12 species of birds, not including the sparrows, gulls, crows, and ravens.

Dawn
Ibis with breakfast of crab. While I was there they ate a dozen crabs!!
Juvenile Ibis.
Two Oyster Catchers were there eating oysters!
Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
Duck, mom with three chicks were in the shadow eating the spilled bird food from the bird feeder!
Osprey
Juvenile Little Green on the railing.
Black Skimmer, the water was full of forest floor debris from the 6 inches of rain runnoff so he could not fish.
Egret, Great Blue and a Black Skimmer!!
Juvenile Little Blue.
Juvenile Brown Pelocan
Brown Pelican
Short-tailed Haw being chased by the crows.k

Monday, June 27, 2022. 75° to start 85° upon return, sunny, light breeze.

Dawn
Short-tailed Hawk, again chased by the crows.
Cormorant flying by.
Three juvenile Ducks are growing up!
Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
Black Crowned Night Heron on the dam, multi-colored trash behind him on the "GOAT", trash barricade a friend had erected. https://www.watergoat.org
Egret on the dam.
Anhinga in the same mangrove as yesterday.
Juvenile Little Blue Heron
Ibis high up in a tree.
Juvenile Little Green Heron.
Adult Little Green Heron (darker).
This shows how little the Little Green Heron is, beside a kayak.

Sunday June 26, sunny, 82°.

Dawn, a few light clouds. Dust from Africa is turning the sunrise yellow, the dust also includes nutrients that land here and in the Amazon and may affect red tide organisms here!
Ibis flying over.
Short -tailed Hawk,
Juvenile Little Blue
This shows you how little the Little Blue is, that is a fishing rod behind him.
Snowy a football field away.
Male Anhinga
Baby ducks are growing up!
Older photo I took of an Osprey amd lunch.
Brown Pelican, there were four Pelicans around this morning, including the one with the hook in his chest. It does not bother him and he is flying and eating well, so the Seabird Sanctuary says to leave him alone, the hook will dissolve in a while.
Juvenile Black Crowned Night Heron.
Juvenile Little Green Heron.
Ann and Sammy.
Scott has up a new flag!
One of two possums running around.
My bananas are not ripe yet.
Another stalk is just starting.
Snails growing on a mangrove stem. These are the snails who's eggs are so tiny they made it past the water filters in the reverse osmosis plant and the snails clogged up the works. The Tampa Bay plant became fully operational in early 2008. It was originally scheduled to open in 2006. The largest seawater desalination facility in the US, it produces an initial 25 million gallons per day (mgd) of drinking water, to help reduce the growing demand on the area’s aquifers. The plant now provides 10% of the region’s drinking water supply.
The spider web was interesting it was like a dome with these egg casings over it.

June 25, 2022. Saturday, 78°, not much breeze, sunny after the sun cleared the clouds.

Dawn
Great Blue Heron before dawn.
Little Green Heron at dawn.
Anhinga a long way away.
Juvenile Black Crowned Night Heron.
Laughing Gull on the wing
Snowy Egret
Juvenile Little Blue Heron.
Duck
Two Pelicans
Pelican has a fish hook in his chest, he has been trying to get it out.
Osprey on top of a mast.
Osprey on the wing.

June 24, 2022. Friday, 84° 6 to 8 mph wind, 3 inch chop, water temp 90°. Sunny.

Dawn
Ibis on the wing.
Juvenile Ibis
Yellow Crowned Night heron with breakfast.
Little Blue Heron
Duck
Juvenile Little Green Heron
Anhinga
Brown Pelicans
Black Skimmer
Great Blue Heron
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Thursday June 23, 2022. 82°, mostly sunny and humid. Light breeze.

Dawn
Ibis flying over.
Short-tailed Hawk.
Snowy
Juvenile Night Heron (possibly Black Crowned)
Great Blue Heron hiding.
Juvenile Little Blue Heron
Duck
Juvenile Little Green Hero, check out the tuffs of feathers on the top of his head!
Brown Pelican on the wing.
Osprey

Wednesday, June 22, 2022, cloudy, humid, 80°. No breeze.

American Crow
Black Crowned Night Heron
Male
Female
Juvenile growing up.
Juvenile Little Green Heron
Brown Pelican
Black Skimmer
Female Anhinga
Great Blue Heron

Monday, June 20, 2022. Clear, humid, 84°.Light breeze. Dolphin started the day!

Dawn
Allan got this photo of the dolphin 15 feet in front of me jumping out of the water!!!!
Black bird.
Blue Jay.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Egret
Juvenile Little Blue Heron
Snowy
Ducks
Great Blue Heron
Little Green Heron
Breakfast
Two Juveniles sparing.
Osprey

Sunday, June 19, 2022. FATHERS DAY. Mostly clear, light breeze made a chop that made it hard to get some photos, humid.

Every morning I stop to say hi to Kevin's dogs Elvis and Vegas. Kevin sent this photo to me of Elvis on his first kayak ride!!
Raven chasing Great Blue. The Raven chased him all across the sky, I guess for sport, not to protect his nest or anything like that. The Crows and Ravens are chasing out all of our birds except for the Ducks and Little Green Herons.
Great Blue Heron hiding under the dock.
Juvenile Little Green Heron.
Brown Pelican
Juvenile Little Blue Heron

Saturday, June 18, 2022. Mostly clear, light breeze, humid. 

Duck.
Dawn
Juvenile Little Green Heron.
Adult Little Green Heron.
Snowy Egret
Juvenile Little Blue Heron
Osprey
Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
Black Skimmer
Black Skimmer flew right beside me, the camera did not have time to focus!

June 17, 2022, light wind 82° humid.

Sunrise
Short-tailed Hawk
Osprey
Anhinga

Thursday, June 16, 2022. 82°, no wind, sun came from behind the clouds by 8 AM. Hot, humid weather! I got photos of 11 species and saw five others: Anhinga’s flying over, a Black Skimmer flying by, Doves, Gulls, and an Osprey!

Dawn is 6:38 here.
Ibis - taken before the sun cleared the clouds.
Pelican just out of the water.
Juvenile Little Blue Heron.
Snowy Egret
Duck
Two of four juvenile Little Green Herons out this morning. playing on the boat hoists like a jungle gym.
Short-tailed Hawk hiding in the mangroves.
Oyster Catcher.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
Great Blue Heron
Egret

Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 84°, no wind, sunny, very humid. Water temperature 91°, same is in the pool!

Osprey
Egret with mating plumage.
Egret landing on the dam.
Brown Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Detail of Great Blue
Male Duck
Mom and three Ducklings.
Juvenile Little Blue
Juvenile Little Green
Love the scraggly feathers on top of the head of the juvenile Little Green Heron.
Gull found breakfast as big as he is!
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Ibis on the oyster bar waiting for the tide to go out.
Fisherman came on their bikes.
Young boy was an expert at throwing the net!
He caught a mullet!
And another fish.

Monday June 13, 2022, 79°, clouds moved away and it was nice. It was a day for babies! Almost all my photos today were of Juveniles.

A cloudy start at dawn.
Common Grackle, a glossy blackbird. Larger than a jay, smaller than a crow.
A Hawk.
Great Blue Heron
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Three Amigos.
Egret
Little Green Heron.
Juvenile Little Green
Juvenile.
One of three juveniles running around.
Adult Little Green.
Adult Little Green fishing.
Osprey on the wing.
Juvenile Ibis.
Juvenile Little Blue Heron.
Even younger juvenile Little Blue Heron.

Sunday, June 12, 2022, 79°, cloudy at first, but the clouds moved away. A beautiful day but bumpy with 7 mph wind out of the SE and 4-5 inch waves.

Dawn
Ibis at dawn.
Osprey tucked into the mangroves.
Pelican on a piling.
One of three Juvenile Little Green Herons treating the boat lifts as their jungle gym.
Juvenile Little Green Heron
Duckling
Snowy
Anhinga hiding in the mangroves.

June 10, 2022, Friday, 80°, 3 mph breeze, partly cloudy, thunderstorms building all across Florida.

Dawn
Female Anhinga
Short-tailed Hawk
Great Blue Heron
Juvenile Little Green Heron.
Two Juvenile Little Green Herons
The Little Green Herons have picked this tiny patch of mangroves beside Captain Mark's boat to have their nest and produce the above babies!
Egret
Osprey

June 8, 2022, 78° no wind, clear sunny sky.

Dawn.
I saw six dolphins this morning!!
Spanish Bayonet Yucca Aloifoli
House Sparrows are plentiful.
Pelican overhead.
Ibis on the wing.
Little Green Heron
Great Blue Heron being chased by a crow.
The Great Blue nest which was abandoned I believe was abandoned due to the crow infestation we have here. The crows chase every bird around and had taken over the nest the Great Blue Herons had built.
Greta Blue Heron
The Great Blue did not stay long, the crow chased him away again.
Juvenile Duck.
Female Anhinga at dawn.
Mom with three ducklings.
Adult Little Blue Heron.
Male Anhinga in the mangroves.
Juvenile Little Blue Heron.
Juvenile Little Blue with a bug for breakfast.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron on the submerged oyster bed.
Detail.
Osprey
Short-tailed Hawk, he looked a lot like an Osprey from afar, but he is quite different.

June 6, 2022, Monday, 75° sunshine, water flat. a little breeze.

Sunrise...it looked like heaven to me!
An Anhinga at dawn.
Another Anhinga, still asleep.
A juvenile Little Green.
The juvenile has his baby fuzz still on top of his head.
Baby duckling.
More ducklings, the ducklings are so soft that the laser in the camera used for focusing does not work.
Mom and three ducklings.
Egret and ducks at the dam.
Great Blue Heron.
Osprey
Osprey checking his feet?
Osprey watching me carefully.
Juvenile Ibis (all of his while feathers have not come in - they come in during his molting period).
Juvenile Ibis (all of his while feathers have not come in - they come in during his molting period).
Juvenile Little Blue (all of his blue feathers have not come in - they come in during his molting period).
An even younger Little Blue (none of his blue feathers have come in - they come in during his molting period).
Detail of the juvenile Little Blue.
Detail of the Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron checking out his plumage.
Plumage all correct, now to call the ladies.
Or maybe a famale calling the guys? I do not know.

Sunday, June 5, 2022. The tropical storm went south of us, I got 1/4 ich of rain and lots of clouds. Today is beautiful, calm water, 72°, sunny.

Sun peeking over the mangroves, mangroves to the left, banana trees to the right.
Sun reflection on flat water.
Anhinga hiding in the mangroves.
Another Anhinga.
Doves in a flock of six.
Duckling
Male Mallard
King of his little mountain.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Snowy Egret.
Juvenile Little Blue Heron
Juvenile Little Blue with a water creature for breakfast.
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Female Osprey (dark feathers on chest)
Male Osprey

Thursday June 2, 2022, water ripples, 73°, no clouds.

Oyster Catcher on the oyster bar.
Little Blue Heron
Detail of the Little Blue.
Little Green Heron
Little Green Heron
Little Green Heron
Ibis looking for grub.
Duck leading the way up to the dam.
Two black headed Ducks.
Two ducklings.
Duckling.
Duckling in the water lettuce.
Mother Duck flapping her wings.
Ducklings in the lettuce.
Two ducklings, one in the shadow.
Snowy
Snowy Egret
Snowy on the dam.
Egret on the dam.
Juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
Juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
Juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
Great Blue Heron
#1 in series of a Brown Pelican recovering from scooping up fish.
#2 The Brown Pelican slowly raises his head allowing the water to escape.
#3 Still raising his head.
#4 He has a bunch of fish in his pouch.
#5 He raises his head allowing the fish to slide down into his stomach.
#^ His pouch slowly deflates.
Off he goes in search of more food!
Allan;s photo of a dolphin, I saw the same do;phin later but did not get a photo. Thanks Allan.

June 1, 2022 Wednesday water calm 74° no clouds. Seven inches of rain in the past two days, storms in the evenings.

The water was flat with a lot of water lettuce all over. Water lettuce is a fresh water plant that is washed down from the upper reaches of Bear Creek.
Water lettuce sometimes covers ponds, but it will soon die in the salt water.
Big catfish caught by Chuck on the Lady Pearl.
Osprey on guard, watching for a fish for breakfast.
Snowy Egret fishing.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Yellow Crowned going after a fish.
Black Crowned Night Heron.
Black Crowned hiding in the mangroves.
Egret and blue sky.
Egret
Anhinga on the dock.
Mom with nine ducklings.
Three Ducklings.
More ducklings.
Brown Pelican
Pelican
Great Blue Heron