Tag: bird
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owls
2023 has been a year for owls. We had Great-horned Owls courting early in the year, their booming calls adding a sense of mystery to an encroaching twilight. The Great-horned Owls appeared to have a single fledgling, whose clumsy attempts at hunting brought it into constant attack from Bluejays, Grackles, and Mockingbirds. We could tell…
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Screech owl hideaway
A Screech Owl finds refuge in a hollow tree, napping by day while waiting for dusk to return to this corner of cypress swamp.
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purple gallinule
Aka Blue Peter, Mud Hen, Pond Chicken, Bonnet-walker…. A Purple Gallinule climbs among stalks of Alligator Flag searching for berries. A year-round resident of swamps in SW Florida.
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the perch
A Wood stork alights on a pine snag at the edge of a swamp. A big bird with a 60-inch wingspan, it is hard to miss as it glides above the trees.
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morning at sawgrass marsh
Florida. A Swallow-tailed kite glides above a sawgrass marsh in dissipating fog. Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed of Southwest Florida.
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Tricolored heron
Tricolored heron, preening. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island.
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Kites in the sky
Swallow-tailed kites have left the skies over Florida, sailing for the tropics. I look forward to their return in the spring.
david korte photographs 