Clouds in a Blue Winter Sky

Wiregrass Gentian

This bloom is in the St. Mark Refuge south of Sopchoppy a short walk from Highway 319.

 

 

 

Mashes Sands Sunrise

These images were taken waaay back on December 18 that began cold and clear with a low, low tide at sunrise. 

 

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

St. Marks Refuge

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Boat-tailed grackle

Original color image of a large gator

Black and white version with more 'texture'

Sopchoppy River

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Found at Lost Creek

I returned to Lost Creek yesterday and walked farther north along the eastern shoreline through the Apalachicola National Forest, north from the County Road 368 (Arran Road) bridge. I found a cypress knee crown and foam rings in the dark tannin water.

 

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