Saturday, March 21, 2015

Sunrise walk

I jumped out of bed..

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We were late for a date..

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with the sunrise…

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I rushed out of Homey while Jeff was still getting ready.

I sat with a Muscovy duck and a few Common Gallinule while waiting for Jeff to arrive and watch the sun with me.

 

Trees giving praise to the sun!

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We left our sunrise bench and took a walk around the park.

Osprey out early with its fish breakfast.

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Limpkin looking ....

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A Boat-tailed grackle female gathers nesting material.

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Yellow-bellied sapsucker doing a good job ringing this palm tree.

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Boat-tailed Grackle male..

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Mottled duck..

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It’s a busy morning for the birds..

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Time to find food… I don’t know what this Common Gallinule is finding up here in the grassy area, but it stays quite a while feeding on something.

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Rock Pigeon…

so beautiful and underrated..

check it!

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It’s a lovely morning in the park…

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We walk the paths near a fitness area…

This will open this weekend.

It looks great!

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Time to head back home for our breakfast..

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Past the very wet Pied-billed Grebe

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Two female Boat-tailed Grackle..

one is very pale in color..

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Goodbye for now..

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See you our next adventure…

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Here we are…

Here we are....
John Prince park and campground~Lake Worth, Florida
It’s a nice site…wooded behind us..
A large side yard..
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We face a screened in picnic area.
All the water sites were taken…..this campground books way in advance.
More than half of the people here come from eastern Canada.
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We have stayed at this park many times in the past.
It’s a great location for visiting friends and family in the area.
Its also a park where Limpkin are our neighbors.
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A beautiful Banyan tree..
Perfect for climbing…see inside.
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Lots of fisherman come to this park…
Sadly things are left behind.
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We take walks in the morning and evening here..
Its Much to hot for Jeff and I to walk mid day.
Cattle Egret
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A very pale Little Green Heron
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Great Blue Heron rocking some nice neck plumage..
Coot nibbling around in the background.
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Great Egret with a lovely skirt of feathers..
and fishermans bobber..
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This lucky little squirrel was getting treats from a little girl.
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Tri-colored heron and Common Gallinule.P1100531
It’s a great place for a walk…
we just hop out of bed in the morning and off we go.
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Did I mention there are Lots of Limpkin here…
Guaranteed sightings.
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Our evening walk… 
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To catch the sunset…
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And see what the birds are up too…
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It would be easy just to stay here and never go anywhere else while we are here…
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But….we have more places to explore…

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Scenes from the Keys

We spent a quick 6 nights in the Keys…

Key largo~

Not nearly enough time…but we saw a bit more than we did nine years ago when we were here.

I was sooooo very happy to discover huge family groups of snails on one of our walks on Key Largo.

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I wont say where we saw them here…

They are protected…but if I know you and trust you, message me and I will tell you where I saw them.

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Golden Orb Weaver

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Showing some throat..

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So..one early morning while in Key Largo..

Our precious young friends…we call the Kids…who happen to be most astounding bird and nature guides…woke up early and drove over from Miami to show us around.

They wanted us to see the

Key West quail dove..

and so we headed to Long Pine Key State Park to be there when the park opened at eight.

Five minutes or so later…

Angel had the bird..

We had great looks at the male and short looks at the female.

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Until Mariel found the male again.

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Having had a perfect start to our morning with a Life Bird we continued on

Angel holds a Hermit crab..

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Mangrove crab..

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Some kind of snail..

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I wish I could have captured how turquoise blue the water is  here…

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I didn’t…

so here Is a beautifully colored Man of War..

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Mariel shows off her new teeth..

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Least Sandpipers hanging out..

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Oh darn…they told me what this is ..but I forgot…

It reminds me of watermelon and seed..

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When In Margaretville you must go somewhere on the bayside for sunset..

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So Jeff and I went to bayside Grill to eat and watch..

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We weren't the only ones here for the sunset..

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The Keys is a one big Margaretville..

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A place to hang and sip Margaritas…

A place to slow down…

to sloooooowwwwwwww down

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to look around…

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see what going on around you..

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Yo…

Worry ABOUT YOURSELF

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check OUT THIS

Faithful beauty moth..

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A funky trailer in our last RV park we stayed at on the keys..

Key Largo Kampground..

Lots of cool trailers..P1100391And so….

Our last morning here..

I watched the sunrise…

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It didn’t matter that the no see ums were biting…

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to wish them away..

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