A couple of weeks ago, we visited the Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary in Asheville, North Carolina. It was a lovely place with a board walk that meandered through a wetland. While there, a Great Blue Heron gave us the opportunity to watch it hunt and capture breakfast. I created a time lapse so I could share it with you.
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Since moving to Georgia, we’ve been visited by a variety of woodpeckers. We had a variety in California also but the only one in common is the Downy Woodpecker.
Though I’ve seen the Yellow-bellied Woodpecker here, I had to use an older picture from Florida because the one I got here wasn’t so good. Note the rings of holes on the tree trunk. Sapsuckers peck in rings around the tree trunk. If you see those rings, you know a Sapsucker has visited it.
The male and female Pileated Woodpecker looks almost identical but the male has a red patch above its beak.
The Downy and Hairy woodpeckers look nearly identical except that the Hairy is considerably larger and its beak is nearly as long as its head. The males of both species have a red patch on the back of their head.
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To me, few birds are as handsome as the bright red male Northern Cardinal. The female whose coloration is not so bright and bold, is quite beautiful also. Recently, I was able to watch and photograph a juvenile. I watched as the male fed the young one. I also found a Cardinal that was molting. My 9-year-old granddaughter said it looked like it was having a bad hair day. I told her that she was on the right track and explained what molting is all about.
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The past couple of weeks are backyard feeder has been flooded with juvenile Eastern Bluebirds. I have counted as many as 6 at one time. So, I thought it might be a good time to post some “family” pictures. I don’t know which adults parented which juveniles, but you get the idea.
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If anyone would like a copy of almost any picture in my library, for educational or research use, please contact me and I will happily share a digital copy with you.
If anyone would like a copy of almost any picture in my library, for educational or research use, please contact me and I will happily share a digital copy with you.
If anyone would like a copy of almost any picture in my library, for educational or research use, please contact me and I will happily share a digital copy with you.
If anyone would like a copy of almost any picture in my library, for educational or research use, please contact me and I will happily share a digital copy with you.
Today I am sharing pictures of some birds we saw on a recent visit to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia, USA. Please note that the Pelican was photographed at nearby Jekyll Island.
A notable part of the bird life we saw was about 50 Little Blue Herons clustered among some trees in a remote area of the swamp. Refuge managers speculated that a new rookery was being formed for this colony to rear its young.
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About 2 weeks ago, we made a trip to Jekyll Island, a barrier island off the coast of Georgi in the USA. We took our granddaughter on a Dolphin Tour. This tour turned out to be remarkable. We floated among a pod of 13 Bottlenose Dolphins for about an hour watching them in various activities. It was a fascinating experience.
One of the activities we observed was mating. I learned that a female dolphin chooses a nanny to assist her to prepare and birth the baby. During the mating procedure the mother-to-be inverts herself, the nanny holds up her head so she can breathe and the male completes his task.
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