Leaf gathering by "our" Purple Martins

They seem to have a hard time pulling green leaves from our mangroves so tend to use the brown leaves in our gutters which are much easier for them to gather.

 

Boats on Tampa Bay: No two are alike

 

Egrets on the Bird Survey: 3-20-23

Great Egrets

Snowy Egrets

 

Ft Desoto Bird Survey: 3-22-23

Bottlenose Dolphins on the hunt

Nanday Conures

Bathing Sanderling

 

American Bittern (Brigantine NWR, NJ)

 

Mullet in Tampa Bay off our seawall

 

The mullet get VERY "excited" when the Bottlenose Dolphins arrive on the scene

Spicebush Butterfly: Shenandoah National Park, VA

On Coral Flower 

On New York Ironweed

Zabulon Skipper on the flower in the upper right corner (and see next image too)

Moose: Anchorage, Alaska

 

Mama

Cow and her calf

Cattle Egrets on Bird Island