More Birds and Sights in Florida

No matter if you are out on a boat on the river or inland in the Marshland..... Birds and Sights to see!

It wouldn't be Florida if you didn't see alligators.....

 



 

                                                             American Bittern

 



 

Yellow & Red-Bellied Sliders sunning on a log

 Many different Gulls

 

 Pelican and Cormorants.... 

 Armadillo

 

Common Moorhen in breeding plumage



 

 

Glossy Ibis

 

 Turkeys

White eyed Vireo

 

Another Alligator, This one a baby

 

 

Purple Gallinule 

 

 Great White Egret

 Pied-Billed Grebe

Sandhill Crane

 

 

Check out this alligator "resting" with the turtles.....

 

To God be the Glory  ~~ Great Things He Hath Done

 

 

 

 



Florida in February

If there's one place you want to be in February……..It would be Florida!  I went there in 2014, 15, and 16...  I'll share some of the sights I captured....

 

 

 

 

 

Life is relaxed and easy at Ocala Sun RV park where I stayed with my brother..

 

 Swim at the pool

Or.....Hook up with friends and go out on the boat and look for wildlife..

 

 

 

My brother David facing the camera.

Heading down St. Johns River

Nesting Double Breasted Cormorants

Close up the mature males have beautiful turquoise eyes

 

 

 

This male is doing a mating dance

The white Ibis will congregate in the trees along the river

The pink legs and long curved beak set them apart from other birds

Notice the black on the tips of their wings.  They feed in shallow water.  Sexes are similar

 

Almost missed this Barred Owl sitting among the trees with hanging moss in background....blended right in.  This owl has brown eyes not yellow as seen in most owl species.

 

An Osprey flies overhead.

 

I cant leave out the Herons we saw..... from

The Great Blues

 

To the Little Blue

The Tri-Colored

and The Black Crowned Night Heron...... 

After much bird watching we needed to stop to refuel

Stopped off at The Blue Gator for lunch...

 

 

To God be the Glory  ~~ Great Things He Hath Done 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Surprise in the Backyard

I love when I look out the kitchen window and there on the tree is a Pileated Woodpecker.  It has only happened 4 times in 40 years.  Thank You Lord for this day!

This happened last January....  haven't seen her since.

 A female evident by her black mustache stripe.... males have a red one.

 Their food of choice is black ants....probably what she is searching for under the tree bark

 

To God be the Glory  ~~ Great Things He Hath Done

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Backyard Visitors

Snow and Ice has kept some of the animals and birds from finding food this winter so I put out corn and they all came.

 Some people don't like this fella, but I think he is cute with those pink feet and pink nose.

 

 Where there are feeding birds you will likely find a hawk.  This Cooper comes here often.

 Of course when the deer can't get to the bare ground they are out there looking and they come to my feeders.

To God be the Glory  ~~ Great Things He Hath Done