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St. Augustine Beach, St. Johns County, FL 3/29/15
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swamp, with duckweed and Spanish moss, in a drainage ditch. |
A wild
Lantana |
Royal Terns |
An
interesting house. At first I thought it was clothes
drying on a line. |
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St. Augustine Beach, St. Johns County, FL 3/28/15
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| Juvenile White Ibises,
on a front lawn |
Royal Tern |
Male Boat-tailed Grackle |
Savannah
Sparrow |
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Rookery, Alligator Farm, St. Augustine, FL 3/28/15
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| Great Egret
taking off |
Great Egret
displaying |
Same Great
Egret |
Great Egret in flight |
Another
Great Egret displaying |
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| Roseate Spoonbills |
Same
Roseate Spoonbills |
Same
Roseate Spoonbills |
Great Egrets |
Great Egret |
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| Tricolored Herons |
Tricolored
Heron |
Toucan (not
at rookery) |
Macaw (not
at rookery) |
Great Egret |
Anastasia State Park, St. Johns County, FL 3/28/15
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| Wood Stork |
Common Green Darner |
Common Buckeye |
Tiger
beetle (Cicindela scutellaris). ID thanks to
Ben Coulter. |
Juvenal's
Duskywing, maybe |
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| Juvenile
Little Blue Heron |
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Anastasia State Park, St. Johns County, FL
3/27/15
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| Florida
Softshell Turtle |
Fiddler crab |
Snowy Egret |
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St.
Augustine Beach, St. Johns County, FL 3/25/15
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| First-year Brown Booby |
Same
first-year Brown Booby with protective
Brown Pelicans |
Eurasian Collared Dove.
Their call is "Woo-hoo-hoo!" and they bray when they fly. |
Karl with two Brown Pelicans |
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| Breeding Sandwich Tern |
Royal Tern |
Another Royal Tern |
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Maria Sanchez Lake, St. Augustine, St. Johns
County, FL 3/14/13
This was a little lake just south of the downtown
area that was created by a dam which connects it with a large marsh.
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| Two Wood Storks in the
marsh on the other side of the dam |
Osprey gliding |
Osprey diving? |
Osprey gliding |
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Native Rookery, Anastasia Island, St. Augustine, St. Johns
County, FL 3/13/13
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| Roseate Spoonbill |
Great Egret displaying |
Roseate Spoonbill chick |
Wood Stork |
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| Roseate Spoonbill chicks |
Wood Storks |
Wood Storks |
Great Egret displaying |
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Maria Sanchez Lake, St. Augustine, St. Johns County, FL 3/13/13
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| Female Anhinga |
Osprey view 1 |
Osprey view 2 |
Osprey view 3 |
Sons of Israel
Congregation |
Downtown St. Augustine, St. Johns County, FL 3/12/13
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| Crablike Spiny Orb Weaver
(dorsal view) |
Same Crablike Spiny Orb
Weaver (ventral view) |
Northern Gannet, on the
shore |
Snowy Egret |
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| Song Sparrow |
Bougainvillea |
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Anastasia Island State Park, St. Johns County, FL 3/11/13
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| Non-breeding Forster's
Tern |
Royal Tern landing |
Royal Tern |
Sanderling (actually at
St. Augustine Beach) |
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| Long-legged fly |
Redbelly Turtles |
Florida Softshell Turtle |
Close-up of part of
Florida Softshell Turtle head |
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| Red Admiral |
Warty (leaf?) beetle |
Common Fleabane |
Laughing Gull |
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Maria Sanchez Lake, St . Augustine, St. Johns County, FL 3/11/13
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| Great Blue Heron |
Great Egret |
Little Blue Heron |
White Ibises |
A little plaque in the neighborhood. It
certainly was done in good fun, but somehow it makes me feel
sad. |
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