A few Florida images

The weather is finally cooling a bit here, and the wildlife around us is beautiful. I took so many pretty pictures while out on my unicycle today that I can’t even count myself as having exercised. :) That said, here are a few images I captured, all within a few minutes of my house. I haven’t done any cropping or photo work, but I hope you enjoy them anyway.

Here’s a wood stork by the side of the road:
woodstork

(They have ugly heads up close.)
storkclose

And here’s a gator in the pond near us. (I wasn’t getting any closer.)
gator1

Here he is from the side, though:
gator3

A beautiful great egret at an even closer pond:
crane1

A little blue heron at the same pond earlier in the week:
blue heron

Some ibis:
ibis1

An egret hunting:
crane hunting

A monarch and a pinecone:
monarch

And though it’s not wildlife, here’s Atlantis going up, just a few minutes ago, as seen from my front porch:
shuttle

Beautiful, isn’t it? You should think of visiting. :)

4 thoughts on “A few Florida images”

  1. Wait..I take it a “wood stork” is not a stork made of wood? Because seeing that closeup picture, my first thought was “Wow, they really put a lot of effort into the detail on the head!”

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