A Wild Wordless Wednesday!

 

These pictures were taken on December 10, 2019 in The Villages, FL at the Freedom Pointe Lake ponds.  Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the photo.  Enjoy!

 

A Few Pictures of Osprey Hawks

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Flight

Double-crested Cormorants

Just a few snap-shots of various kinds of birds in flight.  Have a safe happy holiday weekend!  Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the photo.  Enjoy!

Bald Eagle

Canada Geese

 

Seagull

 

 

Osprey with fish

White Pelican

Turkey Vulture

Wordless Wednesday: An Osprey

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Wordless Wednesday

Osprey

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Kildeer in Flight

Mallards in Flight, White Pelicans, and Double-crested Cormorants

White Pelicans in Flight

 

 

 

Great Egret, Mallards, Cormorant

Mallard Ducks

Great Blue Heron

Wordless Wednesday: Flight!

Osprey

I recently photographed these birds here in Central Florida.  Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the picture.  Enjoy!

Cormorant

Turkey Vulture

Bald Eagle

 

Great Egret

White Pelican

Little Blue Heron

 

 

White Pelican

Cormorants

Cattle Egret

 

More Lake Apopka Wildlife

Great Blue Heron

The North Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive, Apopka, FL, visit last Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018, was a huge success!  I enjoyed seeing a lot of birds and alligators.  Here are the last few photographs I enjoyed taking.  I hope you will enjoy seeing these beautiful birds!  Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the picture.

Red-shouldered Hawk

Osprey

Anhinga in Flight

 

Little Blue Heron

Alligator

Tri-colored Heron

 

Wordless Wednesday: Osprey

Please click on the thumbnail image to see a slightly larger version of the photo.  I took these pictures in The Villages, FL on July 1, 2018.  Wishing everyone a happy Independence Day!

An Osprey (Sea Hawk or Sea Eagle)

I photographed this Osprey at Lake Paradise in The Villages, FL, from the lovely little Schwartz Park. I took the photographs on Tuesday, May 22, 2018 late in the afternoon.  The bird of prey was trying unsuccessfully to catch a tasty fish for its meal.  The lake is very high right now since we have had a lot of rain recently.  I have been seeing many Canada Geese, the resident Great Blue Heron, a few ducks, a few egrets and Anhingas but this is the first Osprey here in several weeks that I have photographed.  Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the picture.  Enjoy!

Birds in the Air at Bourlay Historic Nature Park in Leesburg, FL

Osprey

When I was taking photographs of the Purple Gallinule and the American Alligator the other day at the lovely little nature park in Leesburg, Florida, I saw a trio of Little Blue Herons.  One was an adult in the typical purple-blue coloring of breeding season, one of the Little Blue Herons was a transitional older juvenile in the process of turning blue, and the last was the juvenile in white phase, which was the youngest of all three of the birds.

I also spotted four Osprey, a Great Egret, a few Anhingas, and a few small songbirds like Red-winged Blackbirds, and Common Grackles while I was at Bourlay Nature Park.  This park has a short hiking trail along Lake Griffin and a small wooden pier for bird watching.  There also seems to be a kayak landing area and a nature talk sitting area.  There is a small parking lot and restrooms as well.  This park is just about a half mile or so East of Highway 441 on Canal Street.  I enjoyed about a half-hour there as it was at dusk and there were Alligators in the area.  Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the picture.  Enjoy!

Osprey

Little Blue Herons

Anhingas

 

Great Egret

Osprey

Anhinga