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Great Egret In Front Of Stormy Skies

By |2021-04-12T15:22:48-06:00July 8th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Egrets, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

One of the birds I found that summer morning was a Great Egret perched on a stump that the waves of the Gulf had deposited on the shore of the beach.

Sunrise with a Long-billed Curlew In A Florida Lagoon

By |2022-06-05T15:03:18-06:00May 27th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Long-billed Curlews, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I will say that my favorite and most memorable times photographing Long-billed Curlews happened while I was still living in Florida well away from their breeding grounds.

Pair of Reddish Egrets Fighting Over Food

By |2018-02-16T05:32:23-07:00February 16th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Reddish Egrets|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

I had been photographing just one Reddish Egret dancing in the waves as it caught fish after fish and fought with the Ring-billed and Laughing Gulls over its prey when a second Reddish Egret flew in.

Great Egret – Snowy Egret Size and Appearance Comparison

By |2024-02-18T16:07:23-07:00February 1st, 2018|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Egrets, Pinellas County, Snowy Egrets|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

There are some other differences between Great and Snowy Egrets in appearance of course but I think the comparisons I have written about are the most helpful for me in the field for identification and may be for other people too.

Red-shouldered Hawk Surveying Fort De Soto’s North Beach

By |2024-02-04T08:53:57-07:00February 5th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Red-shouldered Hawks|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This Red-shouldered Hawk was just a few feet away from a tidal lagoon and just yards away from the Gulf when I photographed it in November of 2008.

Marbled Godwit on Fort De Soto’s north beach

By |2016-12-07T12:12:03-07:00March 8th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Marbled Godwits, Shorebirds|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Several years ago while I was photographing at Fort De Soto's beautiful north beach I saw a Marbled Godwit flying in with a dark Tubeworm in its bill and took a few images of it from a distance.

Snowy Plover Resting at the Wrack Line

By |2016-12-07T12:14:33-07:00July 12th, 2011|Categories: Florida, Shorebirds, Snowy Plovers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I spotted this plover resting near the wrack line near the Gulf of Mexico during the winter and sand-crawled up close to it to get a low angle in the beautiful light.

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