Do you prefer Double-Crested Cormorant or Anhinga?

In awe of birds

Reflecting on Alligators

How do you fish?

I wonder how it feels to walk on stilts?

And have a long neck.

I bet it makes for easier fishing.

Then again. . .

Watching a Wood Stork Eat

Brown Pelicans and Black Vultures

As we went to find a campsite in Flamingo (Everglades National Park) a ranger told us about the crocodile that had been on the opposite bank and we went to look for him. We never did see a Florida crocodile, just lots of alligators. But we found some pelicans. The fellow above is a juvenile Brown Pelican.

I think he's pretending to be a statue.

I find it funny that the adult Brown Pelicans aren't really brown.

We had a little bit of time to look around before dark. Haden found this spider.

I'm pretty sure this isn't blood in the water, such a large area was this color we're thinking there's some mineral or something making the water red. Very odd.

Before leaving the park the next morning we stopped to walk a trail and take some bird photos. We were surprised to see signs warning about black vultures attacking/damaging vehicles. Near one of the signs was this vulture strung up, I assume as a warning to other vultures.

I don't think it works, lol.

I don't find them near as creepy as the turkey vultures we have at home.

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Looking Up

The Everglades had so much to see that my head was constantly turning this way and that! If I looked up I could see awesome plants!

Or coconuts waiting to bombard my head!

Or an Anhinga reading to divebomb me.

Or I could play peek-a-boo with an Ibis.

The more I looked, the more I saw.

Watch out!