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Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Happy Turkey Day to everyone tomorrow. This is my last kayaking for more than a week, tomorrow is Thanksgiving, then Eileen and I are headed to Lisbon, Portugal for 9 days.
Today was off and on clouds, then as I returned it started to rain. No manatees or dolphins today. 🙁

Osprey
Anhinga
Little Green Heron
Great Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Fish for breakfast!
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Male Kingfisher

Monday November 20, 2023
Marian came with me, it was cool at first, but tee shirt weather soon. We saw birds, a dolphin and manatees, but did not get to interact with them.

Marian all smiles!
An Egret I think up on a roof.
Flock of Nanday Conures
One of several Anhinga's we saw this morning, this one on the bow of a boat.
Anhinga #2
Anhinga #3
Anhinga #4
Anhinga #5
Osprey #1 on mast.
Osprey #2 in tree
Little Green
Juvenile Night Heron
Little Blue
Cormorant
Cormorant on the pipe telling the Snowy off.
Snowy kept coming, he wanted to go to the west end of the pipe, Cormorant said no.
The Cormorant and the Snowy touched beaks.
After touching beaks for a while, the cormorant was mollified and he let the snowy fly over him to the other end.
Snowy
Great Egret on the water goat.
Ibis in a tree.
Another cormorant that followed us drifting down the creek.
Manatee.
Manatee tail.
Tricolor

Sunday, November 19, 2023
A picture perfect day. 68° and full sun, no wind.

Osprey
Oyster Catchers
Sandpiper
Breakfast!
Great Blue Heron
Osprey on the mast
Little Green Heron
Laughing Gull
Blue Jay
Anhinga
Snowy
Grackles
Little Blue Heron
Black Crowned Night Heron
Asleep
Neighbor out kayaking
Cormorant
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
With breakfast!
Juvenile Night Heron
Ibis
Idling coming down for a landing.

Thursday, November 16, 2023
It has been some cooler (70’s) cloudy weather, even today not much sun (photos are not very sharp) and it is now raining.

Osprey
Ibis
Little Blue
Male Anhinga
Cormorant
Mallard Ducks
Male Kingfisher
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Nanday Conures
With three of them on the feeder at once it does not tip or swing so they can eat easier!
Two Great Blue Herons
Turkey Vulture.

Sunday, November 12, 2023
No manatees or dolphins today, just no wind, flat water and a few birds. First a video of me doing cleanup, then a video of a Snowy as I glided along beside him.

Daybreak
Osprey
Cormorant
Juvenile Black Crowned Night Heron
Same Snowy as in the video above.
Blue Jay
Little Blue
Flock of Nanday Conures
Mallard Duck with missing left eye, but she does fine.
Female Anhinga on the light on top of Lady Pearl
Osprey on top of a sailboat mast.
Osprey back at home.

Saturday, November 11, 2023, Veterans Day
A quiet day, tee shirt weather, lots of birds and fish jumping.

Osprey,before dawn.
Coast Guard
Stork flying overhead.
Two more storks
Today where the Osprey was yesterday on top of the mast was an Anhinga on top of the mast!
Cormorant
Flock of Nanday Conures
Great Blue Heron
Little Green Heron
Juvenile Spotted Sandpiper
Black Crowned Night Heron
Juvenile Black Crowned Night Heron
Female Mallard Ducks
Male Mallard Duck
Little Blue eating a crab for breakfast.
Birds shake off the legs and just eat the body of crabs.
Osprey

Dolphin from yesterday (11-10-2023):

November 10. 2023, Friday
Weather is great, water up the Bear Creak is like a mirror.
No manatees or dolphin today. 

Two masts, two osprey!
Osprey no 1.
Osprey no 2.
Anhinga
Cormorant
Little Blue
Mallard Ducks,male and female.
Kingfisher
Little Green Heron
Ibis on the wing.

November 9, 2023, Thursday
A wonderful day, temperature perfect, several birds and two dolphins running all around! They even splashed with their tales once!

Brown Pelican fishing.
Great Blue Heron flying by.
Osprey on top of a sailboat mast.
Osprey eating his breakfast of fish.
His fish!
Gull came to the top of the post to see what the Osprey left.
Anhinga
Anhinga stretching his wings.
Little Blue Heron searching for breakfast.
Mocking bird
Dolphin
Tern
Ibis

November 5, 2023
Beautiful day, manatee and turtle! Wind brought me home quickly. A neighbor came out as I was returning, but I met Nature John out there.

Some say I should not play with manatees because “it is against the law”. But it is NOT, the law says that you cannot “harass” manatees. I do not harass manatees.
Manatees are protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act of 1978. “It is illegal to feed, harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, annoy, or molest manatees.”
I only pet them when they come up to my kayak.

Noa sent me this photo of me.
Gul looking askance.
Little Green
Little Blue Heron
Huge Turkey Vulture.
Made for trearing into carrion.
Nanday Conures. About 50 flewoverhead.
Turtle
Turtle was stuck between the pipeline and the seawall. I took him back where he could climb up onto the shore.
Grackle
Juvenile Night Heron
Great Blue
Neighbor coming out to paddle up Bear Creak.

November 4, 2023
Cool 63° to start out. Windy and sunny.
No manatees or dolphins today.
About an 18 inch mullet jumped not too far from my bow:

Dawn
Osprey feathers ruffled due to wind.
Little Green
Cormorant fishing.
Kingfisher
Night Heron
Egret on the dam, behind is the new yellow water goat.
ibis on top of tall Norfolk Island pinetree.
Young person throwing a cast net perfectly.
Great Blue Heron

November 3, 2023
Still cool 70° and breezy.  I saw a mother and her calf manatee, but did not get photos. They disappeared quickly.

Anhinga drying out while sitting on top of a kayak..
Seven month old and 70 pounds already!
Little Green
Geat Blue 747 flying overhead.
Snowy on the wing.
Egret on a new Water Goat.
Cormorant
Mallards on the wing.
Grackle
Kingfisher, two of them were flying about.
Two of four Ibis along the shore.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Guys from Meadows Tree Service trimming our mangroves. They sculpture them!

November 2, 2023
Also cooler and windy. Noa came with me today.

Kevin took this photo of hundreds of White Pelicans on Fort DeSoto. This morning Noa and I saw them overhead!
Little Green Heron
Night Heron
Egret
Kingfisher.
Tricolored Heron
Great Blue Heron
Mocking Bird
Cormorant
Ibis and Snowy enjoying the low water exposing the bay bottom.
One of the Ibis
Three Mallards.
Osprey

Amy told me that the video of the dogs does not show up, 
here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG1ezuo8G54

November 1, 2023
My 75th Birthday is today! Windy and cooler today.

Sunrise this morning. It looks like Halloween!
Early morning Night Heron.
Osprey
Female Anhinga
Turkey Vulture
Little Green
Snowy
Snowy (left), Egret.
Tricolored Heron
Storks
Great Blue Heron
Royal Tern

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