We spent the end of October based at South Bay on Lake Okeechobee. The county park here is very peaceful and we were able to walk to the dike each day to bird.
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| Anhinga sounds off |
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| Turkey Vulture floats by the dike |
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| Snowy Egrets leave each morning and return at dusk |
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| Swamp Lily |
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| Black-bellied Whistling Duck with duckings to the left |
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| Little Blue Heron |
One of our day trips we drove east to Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge and Green Cay Nature Center and Wetlands in Boynton Beach.
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| Purple Gallinule |
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| Alligator Flag Blossom |
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| Roseate Spoonbill |
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| Purple Swamphens - from Southeast Asia |
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| Purple Swamphen |
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| Green Tree Frog |
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| Black Vulture |
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| Scarlet Skimmer |
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| Black-throated Blue Warbler |
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| Red-shouldered Hawk poses for his close-up |
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| Limpkin at Lake Okeechobee |
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| Burning of the Sugar Cane fields for harvest |
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| Mosquito Fish or Gambusia |
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| Wood Storks with hundreds of Long-billed Dowitchers |
Another day trip took us south of Clewiston on Highway 835. We saw lots of birds on our way toward Stormwater Treatment Area #5.
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| Turkey Vulture tug-of-war with raccoon intestines |
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| Corn Snake |
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| Crested Caracaras with heron leg |
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| Hundreds of wading birds of all varieties |
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| Anhinga flies by the dike |
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| Yellow-crowned Night-heron |
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| Loggerhead Shrike with impaled sparrow |
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| White Ibis with frog for dinner |
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| Another Alligator |
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| Red-shouldered Hawk gets harassed by N. Mockingbird |
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| Pod of Manatees at Lake Okeechobee |
Beautiful sunsets each night and now we are off to Fort Myers Beach for the next two months.
Seeing God's creation everyplace we go.
Love & Prayers,
Ty & Ida Baumann
Awesome pictures!
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