Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge--mangroves and birds everywhere

Roseate spoonbill and blue-winged teal

Bluewinged teals

Roseate spoonbill - adult

Immature roseate spoonbill

The spoonbill feeds by swinging his bill back and forth

Roseate spoonbill, blue-winged teal, and northern shovelers

Northern shovelers

Coots at Merritt Island

Coots and blue-winged teal

Coot and female blue-winged teal

American Coots

Common moorhen

Reddish egret - dark morph

Reddish egret fishing

Reddish egret courtship

White ibis

White ibis

Lesser yellowlegs

Osprey

Tri-colored heron

and from the front

Snowy egret

Caspian terns, snowy egrets, and a snowy plover

Caspian terns, ruddy turnstones, willet, black-bellied plover

Willet

Glossy ibis

Glossy ibis

White pelican, glossy ibises, shoveler, blue-winged teal

Great egret

Great egret

Roseate sponbill and great egret

Cattle egret

Cattle egret

Little blue heron

Immature little blue heron

Killdeer

Anhinga

Anhinga

Gaillardia pulchella (Indian blanket)

Alligator at Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge

Ruddy turnstones at Sebastian Inlet State Park

Ruddy turnstones

Ruddy turnstone

Black skimmers at Sebastian Inlet State Park

Brown pelicans at Sebastian Inlet state park

Brown pelican at Key Largo

Kestrel at Jonathan Dickinson State Park

Julia butterfly

Iguana in mangroves at Kay Largo

Manatee at Key Largo

Manatee inspecting our kayak

Brown anole

Curly tailed lizard

Fiddler crab

Sea anemones. mermaid's wine glass, and sargassum underwater at Key Largo

Green algae

An upsidedown upsidedown jelly

Upsidedown jelly

Ring-billed gull

Skip looking for birds at Canaveral National Seashore

Kathy on glass bottomed boat going to John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park