Almost Wordless Flight Friday

Young Adult White Ibis

Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the photo.  Enjoy!

Great Egret

Great Blue Heron

Wood Stork

 

 

Sandhill Cranes

White Pelicans

Snowy Egret

Pond Wildlife

 

Hooded Mergansers

Wood Stork

Anhinga

 

Big exotic birds and and a tiny Palm Warbler songbird, all were spotted here in The Villages, FL, at several ponds and smaller lakes this past week.  It is always such fun to take the camera and go see what animals and birds can be found on any given day.  I saw these at Paradise Lake, The Freedom Pointe Lake, and the Walmart ponds on CR466 at Buffalo Ridge.  Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the picture.  Enjoy!

 

Pied-billed Grebe

Palm Warbler

 

 

Common Moorhens

Egyptian Goose

Great Egret

Wild Wordless Wednesday!

White Ibis

I took these photos last week in The Villages, Florida.  Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of that photo.  Enjoy!

Anhingas and a Snowy Egret

Wood Stork

Great Blue Heron

 

 

Great Blue Heron

 

Great Egret

Wood Stork

Great Egret

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!

 

Wading Birds & Bird of Prey in Flight

Little Blue Herons

These birds were spotted here in Central Florida in the last several months at various spots.  I love to see larger birds flying!  Very beautiful.  Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the photo.  Enjoy!

Wood Stork

Snowy Egret

Mississippi Kite

Nearly Wordless Wednesday

Tri-colored Heron

These wading birds and the duck were all spotted at the little Freedom Pointe Lakes on El Camino Blvd.  in The Villages, FL this past weekend.  Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the picture.  Enjoy!

Wood Stork

Anhinga

Tai-Colored Heron and Snowy Egret

 

Muscovy Duck

Snowy Egret

Osprey and Common Cormorants

Waterfowl at Lake Mira-mar in The Villages, FL

Today’s almost wordless Wednesday offering is view of the White Ibis flock, a Wood Stork with the White Ibis, Mallard/Mottled Duck hybrids, a couple of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks, a Great Egret, and a Canada Goose.  All were at the little Lake Mira-mar at Spanish Springs, The Villages, FL, a few days ago. Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the picture.  Enjoy!

 

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!

Egyptian Geese

White Phase Little Blue Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

 

 

Roseate Spoonbill with Great Egrets

 

Wood Storks

Green Heron

Sandhill Cranes

Wordless Wednesday: Some Favorites

Great Blue Heron on its nest

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Bald Eagle

White Pelicans

Eastern Bluebird

 

 

Glossy Ibis

Wood Stork

Limpkin

A Snowy Egret, A Crane, An Alligator and More!

Snowy Egret

These birds, turtles, and the alligator were all spotted here in The Villages, FL on Sunday afternoon.  Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the picture.  Enjoy!

Sandhill Crane

Kildeer

Alligator

 

Cooter Turtles

Wood Stork, Double-crested Cormorants, Mallard Ducks

Double-crested Cormorants, White Pelicans