Florida Bird Photos
The Venice Rookery is one of the premier birding and bird photography sites in Florida. During nesting months (usually beginning in December and lasting through May), daytime activity includes Great Blue Herons, Great Egrets, Anhingas, Snowy Egrets, Cattle Egrets, Glossy Ibises, Green Herons, Tricolored Herons and Black-crowned Night-Herons busily building […]
I made two trips to the Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland about 2 weeks ago. Saw a bunch og gators including a few big ones crossing the trail. Also saw a bobcat but unfortunately missed the picture. However, on my last visit I got to see another great sunrise […]
One of the more common birds of prey that I see in Florida are the Osprey or fish hawk. On a recent visit to Honeymoon Island State Park, the osprey were about all I got to photograph because the mosquitoes were so bad we basically had to jog the whole […]
Sandhill Cranes are very interesting birds to watch. In lots of places in Florida they are fairly habituated and you can get pretty close. Usually in spring you start to see the little baby fluff ball babies. In the beginning they actually sit on mom’s back. Once they are big […]
There are two main reasons I go to the Circle B Bar Reserve for photography if I have a day off. First, is the sunrises on Lake Hancock. I saw maybe the best sunrise of my life here a few years ago. Even the mediocre sunrises are still usually pretty […]
Everglades National Park, and especially Anhinga trail, is one of the best bird photography places to visit. There are a whole lot of different type of birds to see and all pretty use to people. The cormorants in particular are very used to the crowds and allow for a close […]
Over Spring Break when we visited Everglades National Park, I got the chance to spend a little time with this Osprey family down at the marino at Flamingo. There was a mother (I assume) and a chick on the nest. Dad was perched nearby on top of a pole keepin […]
I haven’t posted anything in the last two weeks as we were on vacation in South Dakota and Minnesota. We spent some time in Custer State Park, Mount Rushmore, and Badlands National Park and I will have pictures coming soon. In the meantime, here are a few more of the […]
One of the most interesting things o me about birds is the huge variety of ways that they catch food. This post has 4 separate examples of birds all from the same location, the Circle B Bar Reserve, in Lakeland, Florida. Anhingas dive under the water and stab fish with […]
The Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland, Florida has become my new go to for nature photography. It is only about an hour from my house. It is not too crowded which is one of the main reasons I have limited my visits to my previous favorite, Myakka River State […]