It’s always fun to see baby swans. Both mute swans and black swans had babies at Lake Morton in early May.
A tiny limpkin baby hiding in the reeds while mom looks for food.
Baby mallards looking for bugs.
An older baby mallard.
Pretty ducks and swans.
White pelicans were still hanging around the lake.
Pretty weeds growing along the bank of the lake.
Baby ducks were everywhere on my walk around Carillon Park after work in late April. It looks like those baby moorhens were sitting on cotton in the first picture but that is some kind of algae growing in the lake.
There was also a limpkin trying to feed 2 little babies.
A few of the other birds on my walk. A yellowlegs, a parrot eating something high in a tree and an anhinga with a snack.
Other critters at the lake.
A limpkin family walking down the trail in the fog.
Hiding behind a tree.
Cruising by with a snack.
Baby face.
Lots of limpkins at Circle B Bar Reserve in late December.
All lush and green, this was taken in early April before the drought started taking a toll on the marsh.
I did not change the color on this glossy ibis. They were in their breeding feathers and the colors were so deep. When the sun hits them you can really see the patterns.
So many purple gallinules lately. They are so much fun to watch.
One lone baby limpkin. Mom was close by looking for food.
Far out in the marsh, this great egret caught a stick with his fish.
Mom moorhen feeding the baby.
Now that’s lunch! He caught the fish but then moved locations. I caught him right as he was swallowing it.
Early April at Circle B Bar Reserve.
I still haven’t seen any news on this great blue heron nest. A while ago there was a great blue heron always sitting on the nest for weeks. Then it was abandoned. Weeks later when I was there, I saw this great blue heron looking around. So are they trying again? They’ve had babies in this nest for several years now.
I found the limpkin family again on this trip but they were further away from the trail. The babies were growing up so fast. They now look like the parent, only smaller.
Northern Parulas were all along the trail but they stayed high up in the trees.
A green heron prowling around in the muck.
A glossy ibis doing the same thing.
The dragonflies were out.
A few crawling critters were out on the trail.
Just a few things I saw on my walk in mid-March at Circle B Bar Reserve.
