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Happy New Year to a New start to a new year Good Morning sunshine photographed at Homestead Bayfront Park. Supposed to go out and do a little kayaking today on this first day of the year but I’m always waiting for somebody else like my sister to get ready
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It was so crowded today out kayaking little too warm also, we did find the manatees and there was a baby today. One of these day I'm going to swim with these beautiful creatures. Happy New Year
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Just a thought what do you do to beat the crowds at the grocery store here in Ocala Florida our Walmart opens up at 6 AM so we head to Walmart just as it opens up that way we can get in and get out without the crowns and the lines waiting to check out.
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Taken this morning with my iPhone 11, I enjoy seeing these guys show up almost every day at my workplace since I’ve been throwing corn, and for safety reasons, I got to wear a yellow shirt looking like the Color of corn they see my shirt they come running knowing that there’s a treat Coming their way. The Big Tom turkey strutting his stuff trying to get the females interested in him. https://youtube.com/shorts/wyvENxxn3no?feature=share
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Feeding my Cats before I start my 3 days off. Did catch a Littlegray jumping on the table she is such a skittish cat not like the others sound like she’s always been that way for the last couple years think she’s the prettiest of the four and the smallest they all about the same age like three years old. Then I have Halftail I'm his human he stays with me practically all day every day I’m out here he is follows me around when I go walking the property, then miss Peggy the…
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I'm going to start posting a Bird a day hopefully every day I will post a new bird that I have seen in the past or recently seen if you could help me identify a bird it would be appreciated. so to the best of my knowledge bye my Merlin bird app. This is a Beautiful small bird, It's the Blue-gray gnatcatcher. #Birdwatcher #Nature #birds
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Good morning good afternoon, good evening to all my noisy friends. I’m always amazed how nature can adapt and still survive as I visit a park to capture a beautiful sunrise. After doing so, I noticed this female Boat-tailed Grackle missing one leg and still managing to get around. She was just hopping around looking for a small crabs among the rocks and doing quite well at it. #Birdoftheday #Nature #wildlife
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I didn't think I had Many photographs of Pearl, which is Halftails Sister, and Fluffy‘s sister. She got a home But she was such a cool kitten kind of looks like a little bobcat. The same lady that took her as her pet a month or so ago came by asking if she could take Halftail with her he been my Sidekick for the last 3 1/2 years and to find out she got rid of four or five cats to be able to take Halftail with her. I Said No.
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Catching a Great Blue Heron in action flying away to eat its breakfast away from other birds. Largest species of the heron family. Great Blue Heron will feed on fish, lizards, eels and snakes like this one in the photograph. #Birdoftheday #Wildlife #Birds
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Over on space coast waiting for a spaceX rocket launch to blastoff in less than about at 4:49pm EST in photograph and I actually see the rocket just left the gray building in right at the water tower.
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Well just made it home about 7:45 PM. The rocket launch was spectacular. The ground shook, then came sonic boom, then the sunset afterward was gorgeous anyway, so all in all, it was a good adventure. stopped on the intercoastal I believe that’s what it was to capture a sunset
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I have only seen this bird just one time it’s A vermilion flycatcher Widespread; occurs from the southwest U.S. to Argentina. Found in many open woodlands and brushy areas, often seen perched on fence posts along roadsides. Feeds on insects. Information is from Merlin bird ID app. It’s Great App for identifying birds. #Birdoftheday #Wildlife #Birds
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On my way back from Watching SpaceX rocket launch at Cape Canaveral, I stopped by Parish park on the Indian River in Titusville, Florida, to photograph the sunset, and I wasn’t disappointed. And I also share the link to the rocket launch from yesterday evening https://youtu.be/llND-9iTG_M I was trying to work two devices simultaneously and lost track of the rocket for a moment. Hopefully next time I’ll do better.
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Fluffy watching over his domain he the junkyard cat With all those switch blades in his feet give him problems I’ll give you a treat. Lol. Almost time to head home.
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Couple more sunset photographs from Parish park from Thursday evening after watching SpaceX launch a Falcon 9 rocket to put G5 Starlink satellites into orbit. if you’re ever in Titusville, Florida, and want to watch a rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, this is a good place in free do you manage it takeoff, especially at night
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Cooper’s Hawk sitting in the cypress tree with it's garfish breakfast it’s always amazing that these birds that don’t swim in the water can catch fish like this of course garfish stay close to the surface and sometimes in big Schools making them easy pickings for birds of prey. #Birdoftheday #Wildlife #Birds
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I’m always amazed at what people will throw away and not think nothing of it this guy brought in the dryer and as soon as he put it in the scrap metal box you could hear all the change that was in it. So I took the back off of the dryer and pulled out $20.13 By the way this dryer broke my last record of $16 and some odd cents.
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I would have to say this is the Most unusual bird I have come across in the state of Florida our photography club was having a scavenger hunt it took us all the way around Lake Okeechobee and we had certain things we had to find and photograph them this wasn’t one Of the challenges but I would not have seen this bird if it wasn't for The Scavenger hunt. Crested Caracara Really unusual looks like he has wig on his head he’s a long legged raptor for more information visit this…
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I took this photograph a Littlegray just before heading home from Work I thought this was a good photograph of her because she rarely ever sit still long enough to take a Photograph.
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The turkeys just showed up so I went inside grabbed my Bucket of corn And all I could hear in Turkey talk Was thank you Mr. Chuck thank you. Lol Next thing you know I’ll be having them eating out of my hands.
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Good Morning I Shot this photograph just the other day of this beautiful little bird the Palm Warbler I have them around me all the time sometimes they even come within a foot of my feet chasing insects especially the flies 🪰 https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/palm-warbler #Birdoftheday #Wildlife #Birds
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I have three sandhill crane‘s That come here almost every day the mother the father in their offspring I called them the three stooges lol. Had my camera out so I thought I’d shoot a few shots close-ups.
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Good morning good afternoon good evening had a few errands to run first thing this morning so I’m just getting to my bird photo of the day post. so I’m going to Alaska to find my #birdoftheday is the cute Tufted Puffin is my candidate for today. I photographed this bird while visiting Seward Alaska.
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A customer came in with this cute puppy and just let it wonder around while he was getting rid of his garbage So I watched her. I was tempted to take her home with me.
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A lot of people gathering to watch the sunset at Parrish Park in Titusville Florida last Thursday night and it was a beautiful Sunset, for sure. I do have plans to visit this place again in the future to catch a night rocket launch from Cape Canaveral if you’re in Florida this is a great place to view a rocket launch Parish park https://youtu.be/llND-9iTG_M
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I have little Bella visiting me for a few hours. It must be my Brother she’s hears because all of a sudden she perked up. She is ready to head home to Mom.
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Roseate Spoonbill This Beautiful pink bird Is sometimes confused with a flamingo. But it most definitely is not a flamingo. I photograph this bird while visiting Everglades National Park, and The spoonbill has a little friend next to It, a Black-Necked Stilt. #Birdoftheday #Birds #Wildlife
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I was watching the news. Yes, they were talking about swimming with Manatees over on the Crystal River I’m seriously wanting to do this only problem is I need two people it’s like $70 per person for a three hour swim if there’s anybody out there that’s in this area that wants to go And split the cost I surely would appreciate it. https://youtu.be/vEeS-mPMPdg my photos of the manatees were taken from my kayak with my GoPro but I really want to be in the water with these…
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Earlier today, I went on a hike was hoping to catch a rocket launch this morning from Silver Springs, Florida; of course, being over 100 miles away, if there’s any kind of clouds you don’t see anything.The first photograph with me looking down the trail I was going to hike on was hope see a few deer 🦌 but no luck then I came to this old Dead pine tree with evidence woodpecker activity. Still, no birds then found it attractive old Oak tree then the last was hoping to see the…
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i’ve been here plenty of times as I was growing up our family used to come here quite a bit when we were children. Cape Florida lighthouse is the oldest structure in Miami Dade County Florida built in 1825 been through dozens of hurricanes. Also been Attacked by Seminole native America in it's almost 200-year history. #History #lighthouses #wildlife https://dunnhistory.com/black-miami/cape-florida-lighthouse/
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My Morning Sunrise I decided to put my eye in the sky Because it was looking like there was going to be some Good Color to photograph. #sunrise #Nature
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Happy #Caturday Last night before heading from it was cooling fast and I noticed Miss Piggy and Halftail laying in the chair cuddling together stay warm it's a cool 45°F out there right now hopefully they are staying warm. in the next few days and pushed it down in the low 30s I will be getting a few blankets for they can lay inI Can't stay warm.
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I photographed this juvenile bald eagle just before leaving Alaska in 2017 it was sitting on a rabbit enjoying it's morning Breakfast it just one of many Beautiful experiences I had while traveling from Florida to Alaska and Alaska back to Florida. #Birdoftheday #Wildlife #Birds
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We’re having a strong cold front coming through with solid storms ahead of it wIth heavy rain and strong winds with a chance of tornadoes. Seen on the weather report, winds gusting 40 to 50 miles an hour. Hopefully when I get to work it will cause people to stay home and not come visit me making for a nice quiet day. then tonight the cold front comes through dropping the temp down to the high 20s low 30s.
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I'm joining my friend @awakentolife in his Challenge #thewaybackthensunday posting photos if anything back 7 to 10 years or earlier. recently I was send some photos from a friend a neighbor of mine back in the 70s she sent me two pictures of us when we were hanging out at South Beach Miami they are the photos I'm sharing I must’ve been 14 or 15 years old back then I actually don’t remember these photos being taken but they are I am. lol. In Photo one what is Jina and Julie…
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Before leaving work today at 5 o’clock I took the Time to cover up all my plants to the best of my ability because they calling for frost in the morning trying to keep them going until spring time all of them are freshly planted Wildflowers. Wish me luck
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It’s not a fancy cup but it is a cup of coffee on this chilly morning sitting here at work I definitely need my 2nd cup of coffee. On this windy morning it's 46°F I what is very lucky to have no frost last night but now they saying their definitely tonight there will be a frost and the low of 32
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Where have my golden finches gone I have not seen any since this photograph was taken back a few years ago. they are such beautiful birds and I would like to see them again. Has anybody else seen these beautiful birds at their feeder‘s lately? #Birdoftheday #Wildlife #Nature
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My Cats this morning, after eating their breakfast, I noticed Fluffy Miss Piggy and Halftail trying to stay warm and cuddling with each other but Littlegray was missing I haven’t seen her all day and just a few minutes ago I went around the corner where they feed and there was a Littlegray I was starting to worry about her.
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Good Morning sunrise reminds me of a song. Good morning sunshine you’re my only light. laying with Me by my side. you keep me warm all day good morning sunshine. Hoping all have a beautiful and blessed and warm day. #Nature #Sunrise
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Last night we we’re forecast for a hard frost so we had to wrap up our plants to make sure they didn’t get frost bitten. Our we're also brought and under the carport. They made it Frost is all gone but we’re not going to uncover them because they’re calling for more frost tonight. Stay Warm and protect your plants 🍃
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Well last night SpaceX supposed to launch a rocket at 7:04 PM to put up more Star link satellites into orbit for people that don’t have Internet coverage. about an hour before launch 🚀 it was announced it was delayed for two hours next window was 9:02 pm this is exactly where I am and where the launch pad was located at last night. photograph number two you can see the moon up in the left corner of the photograph and down below you’ll see a little orange dot that was the…
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Visiting my Mom and of course Bella has to come over a get on my lap. She something else she has to be the smallest fat dog I’ve ever seen in my life she just eats and sleeps lol. Does anyone have a fat dog or cat?
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As I traveled through Wyoming there was a lot historical and interesting spots that I stopped to check out along the way split rock formation was one of those.
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This afternoon I decided to go to the local Eco park and to see if I could photograph a few birds and get a photograph of the sunset. I accomplished both and I met a nice couple photographing a beautiful woodpecker going in and out of a hole in A dead tree I miss that part but she showed me the photographs of a pileated Woodpecker now I know where One is Nesting. #Nature #Birds
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Good morning. Today is January 20. I decided to take a ride out to Silver Glenn Springs, hoping that a few manatees were Warming up in the springs. Unfortunately, there wasn’t, so I talked to the ladies, and they said there’d been a couple but not many, so I decided to go down the street. I got lucky and saw a couple of Scrub Jays. I’ve been hoping to see one for a while. This was actually the first time I have seen them and I got a few photographs it’s always cool to add a…
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It’s my first day back after three days off first thing I noticed was the wild turkeys gathering by the fence hoping that I will throw them some corn. To there pleasant surprise I restocked on more corn for the turkeys and It made They are very happy. Also I was pleasantly surprised that the couple frosty nights that we had while I was not here the pumpkins did surprisingly well. And to start off my morning with a lovely #Sunrise #Nature #wildlife
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If there are anyone that interest in watching Atlas five rocket being lashed out Cape Canaveral in about 30 minutes the link below will let you witness it live. it’s a pretty cloudy day here so I probably won’t be able to see it with my eyes so I’ll be watching the link. #rockets #NASA #SpaceX https://youtu.be/ycee3pkbatk
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Here’s a few more photographs of this beautiful scrub Jays that I seen yesterday and the landscape that is most likely where they get their name from the large area scrub trees. information from Merlin ID app . Unique scrubby habitat must burn periodically in order to remain appropriate for Florida Scrub-Jays. Classified as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
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As I walked my work site and made sure that everything was in the proper order and things weren’t Thrown last night while it was dark, I had Miss Piggy Halftail and LittleGray following me around as proper watch cats should do. lol I really don’t know where Fluffy is this morning. I think he is sleeping in. as I look out my window all three of the cats are out there trying to catch birds I really don’t approve of this but I guess it’s In their nature. Happy #caturday
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I had 3 new Sandhills cranes come in to visit this afternoon and they still Had a immature SandHill with them The other group recently showed up with out their offspring from last year finally I guess they finally told him to hit the road lol sandhill crane‘s mate for life they say. #Birds #Wildlife #Nature
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There is so much Beauty in Nature and of course my favorite place to visit every summer is #Alaska. Here is a few places I enjoy the quietness and beauty of these Meadows. And every once in a while you see the wildlife or the tracks of wildlife I Believe they are wolf tracks. #Nature #Wildlife #Landscapes
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First thing I see when I get here to work this morning was about 50 turkeys over in the corner of the property looking for breakfast course there’s a few Tom turkeys out here males trying to court the lady turkeys. Added a Link to a short video of them this morning. #Wildturkey #Nature https://youtube.com/shorts/sjClUQGzeEE?feature=share
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Oh yes I forgot its #thewaybackthenSunday Challenge by @awakentolife here’s a couple photographs from way back then like the late 60s maybe early 70s. If life was still carefree now.
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Well we are experiencing our coldest day of the year here in North Central Florida the sunshine State as I’m writing this it’s a nice balmy 24°F or -4.4°C with a heavy frost on the ground luckily I covered up all my plants unfortunately the cats had a rough night staying warm lucky for them I have a heating pad that should be in the mail today To help Keep them warm. I even tried to get some water flowing out of my hose but it’s frozen solid to kind of knock down the frost…
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Before I ended my day I had one of the Sandhill cranes eating out of my hand this was a first I thought it would hurt if the crane pack my hand but he was quite gentle in taking the corn from me. #Birdoftheday #wildlife
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Just made it Home after playing taxi driver for my Mom today. Question have you ever had one of those days with almost everything goes wrong but then God steps in and answers prayer. So anyway the story my Mom she wanted to go look at a few golf carts some of the people Here where We live get around on golf carts so my mom has been wanting to get one take it Over to Play bingo or go up to get her mail stuff like that so we head out to this location this guy had one for sale…
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It always amazes me here in Florida precisely North Central Florida in the winter time it can be nice and pleasant and then you get a day when you wake up and it’s a frosty 24° and of course you gotta go to work and where I it wasn’t for a heater that I found that somebody threw away I’d have no heat in my office. Here is a few Photographs of the my frosty place I work at.
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Every so often we see something that’s new to us there so many things in nature I was at work when I noticed this beautiful big Moth the interesting thing It looks like I has a face on its back I believe that’s to help protect them from birds. Moths are a paraphyletic bunch of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies.
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A couple of black capped chickadee’s visiting my feeder at work. They very small birds with a big Beautiful song for such a small bird if you like a really good bird identifying app look in your App Store for Merlin bird ID App.
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Good Morning. These Sunset memory popped up this morning, giving me these sunsets that I had taken when I was in Everglades National Park one of the things I miss is being 10 minutes from the front gate of the park. All are sunsets from The Park. It's been a restful 2 days off work my first day was a little crazy yesterday was a restful day and I’m praying that today will be also.
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it’s been a few days since I did a #Birdoftheday I hoping get a sunny blue sky but for the last three days it’s been cloudy damp but nice temperatures in the 50s So around 11 o’clock I drove out two Ocala Echo Park and hoping to track down this Pileated Woodpecker coming out of it's hole in the tree. No luck but I did photograph snowy white regret. Information from Merlin Bird ID App. Small white heron with black bill, black legs, and yellow feet. Lores (between eye and…
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When I lived in South Miami one of my favorite places to walk around was Zoo Miami I spent a lot of time in the bird atrium a lot of the bird were not afraid and would try to Challenge you which was pretty funny. This Western crowned pigeon would actually come up to you and try to attack your feet with his red eyes I believe he had a little demon in him. lol.
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This morning two of my cats were terribly traumatized. A customer that came in with his big dog inside his truck jumped out the window and chased Littlegray Lucky for her. She got away, and up the Tree she went but unfortunately, he turned his attention to Halftail and grabbed him by the neck and shook him just then; I grabbed the dog by the neck, and Halftail got away, but he’s been up in that tree for the last 4 hours. I'm hoping he is not injured, but I can’t tell until…
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Miss Piggy she just showed up just a little bit ago first thing she did was come over and jump up on my lap. I believe she must’ve lost some teeth in the front cause she never before had her tongue sticking out but it’s out all the time now. lol.
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It’s a cool morning 37°F or 2.8 C what’s making it even cooler is the 25 mile an hour wind photograph was taken coming through the forest on the way to work they’re saying tomorrow is going to be even colder with it back in the 20s winter is here in Florida having a big blizzard on East Coast of the United States right now of course we’re not getting any snow but that would be cool to see. Everybody out there it’s enjoying winter right now stay warm and dry and safe.
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Halftail is family getting back to normal after yesterday‘s ordeal with a big dog. He’s actually using the heating pad that I put down for them to stay warm the other three cats are off next to the fence line in the bushes where they spend most of the time. Happy #Caturday
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Every summer when I lived in Florida city we get these guys showing up around the house in our yard on our screens in our brushes. this guy was in our front yard on our Bougainvillea‘s South Florida has become iguana Haven and all kinds of other exotic animals run around the area.
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My #Birdoftheday is the osprey. I photograph this in Everglades National Park at the very end where the road ends is part of the park that is called Flamingo in this photograph, I noticed an osprey taking action to protecting her nest from another Osprey and came up to defend her territory. #nature #wildlife
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Bugs and wildflowers I had a a bunch of these get into my bird seed hopefully with these last few frosty mornings we had knocked down quite a bit of the bugs like the mosquitoes ticks and chiggers.