Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Egmont Key NWR: 11-11-17




Loggerhead Shrike
  



These birds are most well known for their innovative use of barbed-wire and chain-link fences to impale their prey to cache for later.  With this technique it’s easy to understand where they get their nick-name of “Butcherbird"





Snowy Egrets















Interestingly, there is evidence that a pair of Snowy Egrets cannot recognize each other except at the nest.  Even there, a bird arriving to relieve its mate must perform an elaborate greeting ceremony in order to avoid being attacked as an intruder.




Bottlenose Dolphins leading ships along Egmont Channel into and out of Tampa Bay










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