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Fun Friday: Family Dispute
Today’s Fun Friday post comes from the Venice Rookery (Florida) and features a pair of juvenile Anhingas having a sibling dispute in their nest at the rookery. While most of the birds at the rookery were busy building their nests, and a few even involved in mating, the Anhingas, along with the Great Blue Herons, […]
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Tags: anhinga, behavior, bird photography, birding, Birds, birds, birdwatching, Blog, cute, Florida, nature, nature photography, travel, Venice Rookery, winter
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Black-crowned Night Herons Nesting
In this second post of Black-crowned Night Herons at the Venice bird rookery (Venice, Florida), I’m featuring some images I captured of the herons as they brought back twigs and small branches for their nests they were busy building. Unfortunately, their nests are typically deep in the thickets and not very visible. So I could […]
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Tags: behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, Birds, birdwatching, Blog, Florida, herons, nature, nature photography, travel, Venice Rookery, winter
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Black-crowned Night Herons
When I recently traveled to Florida, one of my target birds for the trip was the Black-crowned Night Heron (BCNH). These herons are smaller herons and can be quite shy to photograph. But, like many birds in Florida, they are accustomed to humans and can be much easier to photograph. They seem to be more […]
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Tags: bird photography, birding, birds, Birds, birdwatching, Blog, Florida, heron, nature, nature photography, travel, Venice Rookery, winter
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Fun Friday: Better Keep Fishin’
Today’s “Fun Friday” post features a Great Blue Heron that flew from the rookery to the water’s edge, directly in front of me, to fish. Having my long (500mm) lens on, the heron came so close that I had to back away a couple of feet to even be able to photograph it. At first, […]
Let the Games Begin
After leaving Myakka River State Park, I drove a short distance to my next destination, Venice, FL, where I would spend a couple of days at the great bird rookery there. The Venice Rookery is another favorite place to visit when I go to Florida. It consists of an island-like bunch of mangroves, with some […]
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Tags: behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, Birds, birdwatching, Blog, Florida, great egret, nature, nature photography, travel, Venice Rookery, winter
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Fun Friday: Hitching a Ride
This Fun Friday post comes from my last trip to the Venice Rookery. While photographing the large variety of birds arriving at, departing from, and nesting at the rookery, I captured this Laughing Gull flying over with a hitchhiker, a frog: