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Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge |
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Merritt Island National
Wildlife Refuge--mangroves and birds
everywhere
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Roseate spoonbill and blue-winged teal |
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Roseate spoonbill - adult |
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Immature roseate spoonbill |
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The spoonbill feeds by swinging his bill
back and forth |
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Roseate spoonbill,
blue-winged teal, and northern shovelers
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Coots and blue-winged teal |
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Coot and female
blue-winged teal
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Reddish egret - dark morph |
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Caspian terns, snowy
egrets, and a snowy plover
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Caspian terns, ruddy turnstones, willet,
black-bellied plover |
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White pelican, glossy ibises, shoveler,
blue-winged teal |
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Roseate sponbill and
great egret
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Immature little blue
heron
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Gaillardia pulchella
(Indian blanket)
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Alligator at Merritt Island Wildlife
Refuge |
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Ruddy turnstones at
Sebastian Inlet State Park
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Black skimmers at Sebastian Inlet State
Park |
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Brown pelicans at
Sebastian Inlet state park
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Brown pelican at Key Largo |
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Kestrel at Jonathan
Dickinson State Park
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Iguana in mangroves at
Kay Largo
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Manatee inspecting our
kayak
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Sea anemones. mermaid's
wine glass, and sargassum underwater at Key
Largo
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An upsidedown
upsidedown jelly
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Skip looking for birds at Canaveral
National Seashore |
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Kathy on glass bottomed
boat going to John Pennekamp Coral Reef State
Park
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