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More Birds Arriving

Sandhill Cranes

The Winter migration is underway and more and more birds are arriving here in recent days. This will continue through December or early January. I have been seeing small flocks in the skies and on the shorelines of local lakes. I also have included a photograph of some smaller freshwater turtles that happened to be sunning themselves on the shore of a local golf course pond. Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the picture. Enjoy!

Canada Geese

Cooter Turtles

Adult White Ibis

Black-bellied Whistling Ducks

Egyptian Geese

Mottled Ducks

Wordless Fri.: Flying Waders

Juvenile White Ibis

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

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Great Egret

Tri-colored Heron

Wood Stork

Great Blue Heron

Wood Stork

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Wading Birds at Freedom Pointe Lake in The Villages, FL

Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets and Tri-Colored Heron

Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Great Blue Herons, Wood Storks, Anhingas, and a Tri-Color Heron were spotted this past week at the Freedom Pointe Lake in The Villages, FL. This little lake borders a golf course, an assisted living complex, and a boulevard with golf cart multi-modal pathway. It is often busy with wading birds during the Fall through Spring months. I enjoy visiting this area as it is easy to see the birds from the path or the parking area. Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the picture. Enjoy!

Great Egret

Tri-colored Heron

Wood Stork

Great Egret

Snowy Egret, Cormorant, Great Egret

Great Blue Heron

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Wildlife at Tideviews Preserve, Atlantic Beach, FL

Crab

I was just in Atlantic Beach, FL and saw the lovely Tideviews Preserve there. This area is a suburb of Jacksonville, FL and is right on a large river and very close to the Atlantic Ocean. This is basically a brackish tideland marsh.

I saw a lot of tiny crabs along the path in the dirt and a few on the boardwalk. They scattered when I approached. I also spotted a juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron; and several Great Egrets while I was there at about 10:30am which was an incoming tide towards a high tide. I have been told that many more birds can be seen there during the low tide, including Roseate Spoonbills. So, perhaps the next time I am there I will hope to go during a low or even minus tide. It was a fun visit even though I did not see very many birds. Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the picture. Enjoy!

Egrets in the Trees

Great Egret

Scenic view down the marsh canal from the boardwalk pier

Juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Great Egret

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Some of the More Unusual Birds That Have Visited Us

Limpkin

Roseate Spoonbills, Sandhill Cranes, Wood Storks, Limpkins, a Black Crowned Night Heron, Egyptian Geese, White-phase Little Blue Herons, and Green Herons have all been photographed in freshwater marshes (sometimes referred to as “Prairies”), ponds, and small lakes here in or near The Villages, Florida. I love seeing these birds!

The Roseate Spoonbill (only seen here once in the four years I have lived here, the Black-crowned and White Little Blue Heron have to be the most seldom seen here of all of the above mentioned wading birds. The most common are the Wood Storks and Sandhill Cranes among the ones I am featuring today. Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the picture. Enjoy!