Monday, December 16, 2013

3 Birds at St. Marks Refuge Mounds Pool 2

On Sunday, Trudy and I enjoyed one of the reoccurring St. Marks Refuge winter wildlife tours led by Don Morrow. I highly recommend these tours for a look at bird habitats east of the Lighthouse Road. It was cool and overcast during the morning tour; rain began in the afternoon. We got good distance looks through spotting scopes of a vermillion flycatcher, blue-phase snow goose, ruddy duck, many white pelicans and blue and green-winged teal.
 
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Forster's Tern

Ring-billed Gull

Boat-tailed Grackle

Saturday, December 7, 2013

St. Marks Refuge

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Boat-tailed grackle

Original color image of a large gator

Black and white version with more 'texture'

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Sopchoppy River

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