Out and About with Ruthie (aka Nickie) and Jimmy: Everglades National Park

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Everglades National Park - best birding!

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Flying woodstorks. Two red-shouldered hawks (one immature). Turkey vultures everywhere!

Check out the cormorant's eye. Black-crowned night heron. American bittern.

These anhingas displays were striking. (check out that eye!) Nice catch!

Great white egret. Yellow-crowned night heron. Nesting osprey up top, red-bellied woodpecker opposite it's hole-home beneath.

Green heron. Great blue heron. Immature ibis.

Roseate spoonbills feeding while wading in shallow water. Barred owl (with two fat, fluffy white chicks in a nearby nest). Whoo-whoo, whoo's cooking for youuuuuu...!

What a great national park.

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Rob7:29 PM
Wow. Very impressive collection of bird photos.
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Anonymous5:48 AM
And so many great bird pics didn't make it onto the blog! On this FL trip I've seen about 70 bird species. Yesterday on Paynes Prairie we were privileged to see both sandhill cranes AND whooping cranes (rare to see here). Wowzers.
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Out and About with Ruthie (aka Nickie) and Jimmy

20090225

Everglades National Park - best birding!

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