May, 2024

May 31, 2024
Nice out, one duckling with its mom and two ducklings with their mom today.

Anhinga in mangroves.
Female Anhinga
Male Anhinga
Oyster Catcher
Sandpiper
Osprey
Little Green
Blue Jay
Grackle
Egret
Nature John's place, I have not seen him in ages!
Great Blue Heron
Mullet jumping all around!

May 30, 2024
More wonderful weather, a new batch of baby ducks! Six with their mom!

Yellow Crowned Night Heron yawning.
Sandpiper in background.
Juvenile Yellow Crowned.
Female Anhinga
Male Anhinga
Egret on the dam.
Great Blue Heron
Osprey with breakfast of fish.

May 27, 2024
The duckling and mom are doing fine. When I returned to shore, two juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Herons came with me! Still Great weather.

Scott was ready for Memorial Day today!!!
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue on the wing.
Black Crowned Night Heron, there were two in the mangroves!
Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
Juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron above my head!
Second one looking at me!
Scratching feels good!
He came down to see me!
Blue Jay
Little Green Heron with breakfast of a tiny fish.
Duckling with mom!

May 26, 2024
Well, the ducklings are now down to one. Great weather continues, Alexa said it was going to be cloudy today, yet there was not a cloud in the sky!

When I started out, this tiny baby opossum was right at my seawall!
Anhinga in the mangroves.
HAndsome dude!
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Juvenile Yellow Crowned
Oyster Catcher
Great Blue Heron
Turtles on the dam
Butterfly on the bougainvillea.
Squirrel getting breakfast.

May 25. 2024
More great weather, the four ducklings are now down to three.

Parents
Brown Pelican
Juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron, see his curly baby feathers on top of his head!
Adult Yellow Crowned Night Heron trying to sleep.
Juvenile Little Blue Heron. His blue adult feathers have started to come in!
Anhinga on Allan's dock.
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue panting to keep cool.
Holding wings akimbo to reduce the heat.
Blue Jay
Anhinga in the mangroves.

May 24, 2024
More beautiful weather. I did not see the mom and her 4 ducklings today, it was a quiet day.

Female Anhinga
Grackle
Little Green Heron
Mallard Duck
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
The Plumeria are in bloom, yellows and pinks.

May 23, 2024
Beautiful cool day, nice breeze. I saw a Skimmer, but it swooped by and was gone. Also a number of Anhingas.

Sandpiper
Downy Woodpecker
Grackle
Great Blue Heron
Malard Duck
Blue Jay
Mom and four ducklings!
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Female Anhinga.
Osprey

May 12, 2024
Started out cloudy, sprinkled a liny bit than the sun came out! No wind at first, then out of the NE, just right to give me a push home. Happy Mothers Day, just don’t let your balloons end up in the water as this one was – I fished it out of the creek.

Great Blue Heron.
Anhinga
Female Anhinga
Osprey
Cormorant
Junior Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Adult Yelloe Crowned Night Heron

May 10, 2024
Another beautiful day, the breeze was out of the south so the chop was strong.

Tern flying overhead.
Then the Tern came up with breakfast!
Brown Pelican.
Female Anhinga.
Great Blue Heron.
Little Green Heron
Fish
From 9 babies now down to three.
Yellow Crown Night Heron
Snowy
Thesea grape is starting to send out grapes!
Red Mangroves are starting to send out seeds.
B;ue Jay
Squirrel
Blue tow boat (right) bringing the powerboat with four engines back to marina!

May 5, 2024

Marian came kayaking with me today! A very pleasant day, we even saw a manatee, but no pictures.


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Fish Crow on the oyster bar.
Merganser on far side of the oyster bar, he flew before I got a good photo of him.
Male Anhinga
Tern flying overhead too fast to focus.
Elvis
Presley
Snowy Egret
Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
New dock going in using hollow fiberglass tubes, I asked if they were going to fill them with concrete, "no, they stay hollow" was the answer. It is called a "forever dock" as there is noting to rot or corrode.