Saturday, March 19, 2016

Florida.

We're spending some time in Florida touring around and visiting with family.  We've revisited some familiar and previously enjoyed places.  It has all been very 'Florida'.

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                                                 Ah.... the Gulf

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                                                     Grackle

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                                                    Catbird

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                                                       Zen Gull

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Strange to imagine creatures like camels, saber toothed cats, mammoths and mastodons roaming the peninsula.  They just don't seem very 'Florida'.

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                                                 Sand in our toes.

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                                                    Laying Low

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                                                 Mud treatment

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                                             Butterfly Milkweed

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                                             Dorantes Longtail

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                                                   Dollarweed

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                   Who me?  I wasn't in your hair.

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                                       New for us... Northern Parula

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                                      and Yellow Bellied Sapsucker

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                                                  Apple Snails

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                                        Lizard Tails (the plant variety)

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                                                  Pretty Scenes

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                                                       Young

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                                                     Things

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                                                       Phaon Crescent

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                          Another new avian friend - Blue Headed Vireo




                                    Early Morning Carolina Wren Serenade


2016-03-13 Florida, Blue Cypress Lake - Scenes (1)
                                                             Perfect