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9-29-22  I have made it home after evacuating for Hurricane Ian. The water out of the bay was sucked dry by the hurricane and deposited down south!

Ibis, Snowy, and Egrets have come to snatch up little fish or crustations left behind. See video below:

9-28-2022 While the Hurricane Ian rages outside, I have been trying to catch up with my photos. My “dongle”s which allowed me to send the phots from the computer chip to my laptop had both failed. I had to download from the camera directly to the laptop, this took hours to do, rather than the 15 minutes. I had ordered a new dongle but it had not arrived before I had to vacate. Here are some of the photos.

Downey woodpecker. As I sat in my kayak he landed right 20 feet from me.
One of three pile driving rigs here.
Dorsal fin of the dolphin that had a fishing net stuck to it. It looks like someone shot it.
Carley the hunting dog that barks when dolphin come by.
The little piglet Curley is growing up!
Pelican on the wing.
Sandpiper.
Cormorants in the shade. Sun behind the clouds.
Cormorant.
Tri-color.
Tri-color has white under!
Three of five Egrets, the Tri-color, and the Little Blue on the oyster bar.
Tri-color
Snowy Egret
And under here.......
Juvenile Little Blue, no blue feathers yet!
Adult Little Blue.
Ibis with a crab!
The female Anhinga I see every day.
Great Blue Heron
Royal Tern
Royal Tern diving.
Off he goes with his fish.
Osprey
Little Green.
Ducks on the wing.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
Juvenile Night Heron.

September 18, 2022    – Another nice day, one dolphin and several manatees were sighted today!

Osprey at the top of a mast.
Brown Pelican in the mangroves by my place.
Royal Tern fishing for breakfast.
Snowey Egret at Maximo Marina.
Little Greem looking for bugs to eat.
Tri-color Heron
It has been a month since I had seen a Tri-color.
Juvenile Little Blue, still has a few white baby feathers.
Young male Mallard - his green feahers on his head have not all come in yet.
Female
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Black Crowned Night Heron, it has been many months since I had seen him.
Showing off his black crown.
Egret
Egret, Snowy and two Ducks at the dam.
Egret at the marina, the Egret and a Snowy seem to pal around together.
Female Anhinga hiding in her usual spot.
Snout of one of the manatees I saw today.
Another manatee.

Sept 17, 2022  – We had over 5 inches of rain last night, my rain gauge only has capacity for 5 inches and it overflowed. Today was nice out, in the low 70’s. Not many birds though.

This juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron wss in my path going down to the water as I came back. When I disturbed him, he flew up to my neighbor's deck!
Female Anhinga.
Anhinga drying his feathers.
Little Green Heron on the pipeline.
Egret
Osprey

September 16, 2022 – A nice cooler day.  Again I got a good photo of my nemesis, the Kingfisher! YAY!

Kingfisher
Cardinal
You will have to use your imagination, the manatee was here!
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Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican right over my head!
Little Green Heron
Female Anhinga
Ducks
Ibis
Snowy
Egret

September 15, 2022  –  A break in the weather! 70’s this morning!

The Kingfisher hovering - ready to dive and try for a fish!
Kingfisher, he missed this time.
Blue Jay at the feeder.
Willet
Willet with a breakfast of crab.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Little Blue Heron
Female Anhinga
Snowy
Brown Pelican
Ibis
Two Osprey!

September 14, 2022 – A nice day this morning. I got some nice photos of an Osprey and of a Yellow Crowned Night Heron having breakfast of a crab.

Osprey on the wing.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron found breakfast, a crab.
Down the hatch.
Juvenile Night Heron
Snowy posing for me.
Female Anhinga
Egret
Juvenile Little Green Heron
Willet
Piping Plover
Royal Tern
Two Kingfishers!

September 7, 2022  – An adventure every day!
1. I paddled further north on Bear Creek than I had ever been, but was stopped after a half mile by a 24 inch tree that had fallen across the creek. I could have portaged around it, but there was no easy way to get out of my kayak to do that.
2. I saw a momma dolphin and a baby, and also a manatee today.
3. I finally got better photos of the Kingfisher!

Kingfisher!
The fast flyer is off!
Manatee snout, nature John had touched him, but the manatee did not like that.
Nature John lives along Bear Creek.
Flowers along Bear Creek
Vegetation over the upper Bear Creek.
Huge leaves along the creek (some 4 feet wide.)
A dragon fly called a Four-spotted Pennant
Momma dolphin next door to Allan's home
Baby dolphin;s dorsal fin.
The section from 65th to 64th was the new section, I had to go over the pipeline, over the dam, and over the "goat" to proceed up that 1/2 mile. The creek walls on either side were about 20 feet high!
This is the "goat" that collects debris that I had to go over, Little Green is using it to fish off from.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
Little Blue.
This is the first male Mallard I have seen, he was on the upper reach.
Ibis
Osprey
Pirate ship

Dolphin day today Sept 5, 2022, as well as jacks (fish) making a splash, birds, and flowers.

Pelican
I have to give this female Anhinga a name, she lives in this mangrove bush and I see her every morning.
A lady feeds these ducks on this seawall.
Egret in a tree.
Osprey, they, like the hawks, like to look at their feet a lot.
This is the first time I have seen an Osprey on top of a Christmas tree! (Norfork Island Pine)
A Little Blue, he almost has all of his blue feathers now!
Little Blue with a snack.
And another snack!
Flowers on my trek.
Manatee snout.
Dolphin chasing fish for breakfast.
M photographing - making a movie of the dolphin racing around.
J looking on.
This couple live on their sailboat moored out in Boca Ciega Bay, she works, so he brings her to shore every morning.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
I do not think he is fully a Yellow Crowned, but maybe a mix of Yellow Crowned and Black Crowned? Or maybe a juvenile Yellow Crowned.
Juvenile Little Green.
Adult Little Green
Gull (remember, there is no such thing as a "seagull", they all have names such as Laughing Gull).
Snowy with a nice mise-en-scène

Sept 4, 2022   Pelican day!

A Gull sitting on the Pelican's head hoping the Pelican will drop something! The Pelican can do nothing about it.
Three Cormorants and a Duck?
Cormorant taking off.
Juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
Great Blue Heron and a Snowy at the dam.
Male Cardinal.
Female Cardinal.
Female Grackle
Bougainvillea
Blue Jay
Harmless black snake (he eats bugs, not venomous)
Use your imagination, dolphin? Manatee? It rocked my kayak!
Adult Little Green Heron.
Juvenile Little Green.
ibis ready to mate.
Laughing Gull.
Gull on the wing.
Snowy

I had visitors out on the water today.

And a watcher from shore.
A dolphin made a huge splash, I only got the result.
Ducks
Little blue, still has not got all of his blue feathers yet.
Breakfast!
A Little Green looking for his breakfast.
A Snowy Egret.
A Snowy Egret on the wing (black beak, yellow feet)
Egret on the wing, yellow beak, black feet.
Osprey
Eggs of a Channeled Whelk
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