Monthly Archives: April 2014
Reddish Egrets
The egret flew into the picture the same moment I snapped. It looks like he is expressing breeding plumage, trying to impress the female egret. Just yesterday, this pond was dry and since it didn’t rain I am surmising that the water flowing into the marsh this morning was from the underground supply and high tide. […]
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Ibises and an Osprey
You are a poor man if you have never seen an eagle fly…. JOHN DENVER
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First Baby of the Season!!
Key Deer Fawn
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There were dozens of small baby moon jellyfish out on the reef at Looe Key yesterday.
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Scarlet Tanager
This songbird, the Scarlet Tanager (related to cardinals), is probably on his way back to the mainland from South America, passing through Big Pine Key.
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Key Deer on the Beach
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Parrots
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Roseate Spoonbill
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The Laughing Gull and The Midnight Parrotfish
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Loggerhead Sea Turtle
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Bottlenose Dolphin
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The Laughing Gulls and the Rainbow Parrotfish
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Black-necked Stilts
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The Grackle’s Breakfast
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Key Deer
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Blood Moon
There was a lunar eclipse early this morning which made the moon look red from the reflection of the sun .
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The Gypsy Chicken
The chickens you may see roaming around the parking lot of the Winn-Dixie in Big Pine Key and on the streets of Key West originate from Cuba. In the mid 1800’s chickens were big business in Cuba. Originally brought there from Spain, it was bred with other European breeds for aggressiveness and to fight. This […]
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The Marsh
Black-necked Stilts, a Spotted Sandpiper, and an immature Ibis find the little water available left in the marsh.
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Key Deer
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The Marsh is DRY….
but the sun still shines!
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Blue-winged Teals
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The Place Where Key Deer Sleep
Deep in the middle of the subdivision, the Key Deer have indeed found a tropical refuge, lush with soft green grass and moist soil, shaded by the web of branches which overhang low to the ground. The earth adopts a musky smell when they are around. The herd has developed a highway of trails deep […]
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The Hermit Crab
I saw a beautiful shell underneath my stilt house and when I picked it up to investigate, a living crab was stuffed inside. I placed it closer to the water but the next day it was underneath the house again in the same place. I like to think that it might have been headed for […]
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Key Deer Brotherly Love
The absence of any females is a good sign that they are somewhere in the woods birthing and caring for the newborn Key Deer of this season. The mothers hide the fawns for about a month before reemerging to join the others. Notice all antlers have fallen off now. The males like to band and […]
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Hell’s Bay and the Florida Soft Shell Turtle
Kayaking into Hell’s Bay in Flamingo Park is called such because of the difficulty getting into it and out of it as the passageway is narrow and it is like being in a large maze constructed out of everglade mangroves. Sleeping on a chickee (a man-made platform built right in the water) a manatee slept […]
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