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| Dave Witten | profile | all galleries >> Galleries >> Ft. DeSoto, Venice, Estero | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
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 Osprey across the water from our campsite |
 Airstream at rest |
 Great egret in breeding coloration |
 Willet |
 Pelicans see food |
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 Marbled godwits & some willets |
 Resting position |
 Marlbed godwit, I think wading not swimming |
 The bills of shorebirds are soft, sensitive, & flexible! |
 Bills & legs of different species are of different lengths, helping them not deplete the food resources that they share. |
 Sandwich terns |
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 Reddish egret |
 He casts shadows with his wings to confuse fish. |
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 And his fishing style is frenetic. |
 He works usually in shallow water. |
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 We've rarely seen him this calm. |
 Australian pines, prolific & problematic in coastal Florida |
 Those are not needles. The tree is deciduous. |
 Snowy egret |
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 Redwing blackbird |
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 One of us |
 Semipalmated sandpiper |
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 Ruddy turnstone, said to turn over stones to find food! |
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 Semipalmated plover |
 Some gull |
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 Long-billed curlew |
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 The bill may be 8" long. |
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 Ospreys dive straight down from 50' for a fish. |
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 People working |
 Laughing gull (not every minute) |
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 Is this a nest? |
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 White ibis |
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 Australian pine is very hard wood. |
 Female rose-breasted grosbeak with no napkin |
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 On a movie set |
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 The Sunshine Skyway |
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 Growing anhinga children |
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 Great blue heron dad |
 At Venice over 100 birds share a small island nesting area. |
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 Pre-adolescents? |
 Anhinga |
 At Estero Bay |
 Black-bellied plover |
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 Reddish egret with some white morph in his lineage |
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 How can this bird weigh 8 pounds? |
 Fare well! |
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