In the backyard in January

Posted on March 26, 2018 by dinajohnston

Birds in our backyard, They are all regular visitor’s. A great blue heron, an anhinga drying his wings with some seaweed on his beak and a red bellied woodpecker.

Arriving home one day I saw a Cooper’s hawk eating something in my neighbor’s yard. Then later we had a red shoulder hawk on my neighbor’s sailboat mast.

We have a hooded merganser couple that hangs our in our channel during the winter. Every so often he comes close to our dock.

Plants in the backyard.

The sea fog had rolled in one Sunday morning.

One of the big moon events recently. Taken in the driveway.

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I can still see you

Posted on March 21, 2018 by dinajohnston

Lots of birds hiding in the fog at Circle B Bar Reserve in early February.

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The usual birds at Circle B Bar Reserve

Posted on February 24, 2018 by dinajohnston

Anhingas are always showing off.

Is this wood stork laughing at me?

The usual birds found along the trails. Glossy ibis, blue gray gnatcatcher, tricolored heron and there’s always a green heron with a fish somewhere.

Two lakes in downtown.

Posted on February 10, 2018 by dinajohnston

One of the black necked swans.

A black swan working on a nest.

A young mute swan.

A young and an old wood stork.

One of the shelducks at Lake Mirror.

A pied grebe hiding in the reeds,

Cormorants and anhingas drying off in the sun. The first bird in the top picture is an anhinga. The rest are cormorants. Anhingas have a straight beak and spear their fish. Cormorants have a curved beak and hook their fish.

Threes a crowd.

All taken at Lake Morton and Lake Mirror in downtown Lakeland. The small lakes are just a few minutes apart so it’s easy to do quick walks around both before heading home.

After work walk

Posted on December 4, 2017 by dinajohnston

A lone sleepy spoonbill along the walking path.

Crazy parrots high up in the trees.

A pelican and anhinga getting ready for bed.

A green heron trying to grab one last bite before dark.

Not sure if these turtles had been napping all day or if they just climbed up to sleep for the night. There’s a fun little floating pad for them to sleep on.

This guy was relaxing.

Clouds rolling in before the sun going down. A quick walk before dark at the office park near my work right before the time change. No more walks after work until late March.

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Big pile of marshmallow babies

Posted on July 15, 2017 by dinajohnston

I stopped by a park near work recently and found these babies on the boardwalk. The above are anhinga babies, almost grown up. There were three of them on a teeny tiny nest.

On the other side of the boardwalk was the above. Mom was sitting on top of her babies. You could just barely see the featherless skin underneath her.

Another nest had 3 older babies sleeping in a pile. A little while later, Dad came to feed them right before dark. I don’t know how far down that baby has to reach to get the fish out of Dad’s throat. Dad seemed to be very patient.