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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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