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Ranger, the Red-tailed Hawk ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
Note tethering and perching gear for this rescued beauty of nature.
Ranger RedTailed Hawk bird captive bird Buteo.jamaicensis raptor shrill cry oldest known 30 years red tail broad round wings short wide tail 2nd largest buteo hawk residentshort distance migrant
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Chrystal Cemetery ~ Chrystal, Potter, Pennsylvania
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." ~ Henry Miller
Chrystal Cemetery Potter County Pennsylvania
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Red-Bellied Woodpecker Takes the Peanut ~ Melanerpes carolinus ~ Huron River and Watershed
“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.” ~ Peter Adams
Redbellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus barred backs red cap oldest12 years pale belly red nape clings to tree bark undulating flight pattern bird
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Blue Jay with Peanut and Friend ~ Cyanocitta cristata ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.” ~ Diane Arbus
Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata Huron River and Watershed Michigan bird songbird complex social system tight family bonds fondness for acorns sometimes migratory mimi calls of hawks tool user blue oldest known 26 years prominent crest bold black necklace bold white wingbar wings tail barred wblack abundant near forest edges knnown for intelligence often mate for life communicate vocally wbody language immense vocabulary excellent mimics gular pouch
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Mama Sandhill Crane and Her Endearing Canada Gosling ~ Branta canadensis and Antigone canadensis ~ Kensington Metropark, Michigan
10 days later and never leaving the other's side.
Canada Gosling Canada Goose Branta canadensis Sandhill Crane family Kensington Metropark Michigan birds gosling waterfowl bird adopted gosling unlikely pairing on the wing fauna animal nature wildlife adopted Huron River watershed Antigone canadensis
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Family ~ Adopted Canada Gosling, Mama Sandhill Crane, and Papa Sandhill Crane keeping watch over his family ~ Branta canadensis and Antigone canadensis ~ Kensington Metropark, Michigan
"Sandhill Cranes with Canada Goose Gosling"
Canada Gosling Canada Goose Branta canadensis Sandhill Crane family Kensington Metropark Michigan birds gosling waterfowl bird adopted gosling unlikely pairing on the wing fauna animal nature wildlife adopted Huron River watershed Antigone canadensis
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Family ~ Adopted Canada Gosling, Mom Sandhill Crane Stretching, and Brother Sandhill Crane Colt ~ Branta canadensis and Antigone canadensis ~ Kensington Metropark, Michigan
"Sandhill Crane Plays Mother Goose to Adopted Gosling at Kensington Metropark"
Canada Gosling Canada Goose Branta.canadensis Sandhill Crane family Kensington Metropark Michigan birds gosling waterfowl bird adopted gosling unlikely pairing on the wing fauna animal nature wildlife Antigone canadensis Huron River Watershed adopted
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Adopted Canada Gosling and Mama Sandhill Crane ~ Branta canadensis, Antigone canadensis ~ Kensington Metropark, Michigan
"This Sandhill Crane Couple Adopted Baby Goose"
Canada Gosling Canada Goose Branta.canadensis Sandhill Crane family Kensington Metropark Michigan birds gosling waterfowl bird adopted gosling unlikely pairing on the wing fauna animal nature wildlife Antigone canadensis Huron River Watershed adopted
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Adopted Canada Gosling and Mama Sandhill Crane ~ Branta canadensis, Antigone canadensis ~ Kensington Metropark, Michigan
For the dear adopted gosling who touched so many of our lives in his sweet earnestness to keep up with and protect Mama and Papa Sandhill Crane and Brother Colt and for the unwavering and loving devotion of Mama and Papa Sandhill Crane to both of their young ones. "Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again." ~ Mary Oliver
Canada Gosling Canada Goose Branta.canadensis Sandhill Crane family Kensington Metropark Michigan birds gosling waterfowl bird adopted gosling unlikely pairing on the wing fauna animal nature wildlife Antigone canadensis Huron River Watershed adopted
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Fluffy Northern Cardinal ~ Cardinalis cardinalis ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
– Karl Lagerfeld
fauna Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis bird red Huron River Watershed Michigan sweet whistle nonmigratory songbird state bird of 7 states male black mask and throat like sunflower seeds males spread wings to protect young from sun
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Panoramic view from the upland hill and forest at the corner of Highup and Hunter roads, Jasper, Steuben County, New York
My ancestor, Jacobus James Quick, V, born 1797, his wife, Lucy Glosson, born 1808, and one of their children, Sylvenus Quick, born 1833, are buried along with several of the Marlatt family in the small Marlatt Cemetery on the edge of the forest just behind me. This might have been their view.

"Geographically, Jasper is located in the southwest part of the county, and contains 31,300 acres of land. The surface is a hilly and broken upland, some of the elevations reaching more than 2,000 feet above tide water. The streams are small brooks, and the soil is slaty, gravelly and clayey loam. From the hills of Jasper, in years past, there has been taken a quality of stone specially adapted to the manufacture of grindstones, but remote from the railroads of the county, and from commercial centers, the natural resources of this town have never been fully developed. Its inhabitants are, and for all time during the period of its history have been farmers; earnest, honest, steady and hardworking husbandmen, who, notwithstanding the disadvantages of location and the difficulty attending successful cultivation of the land, have succeeded in establishing for themselves a satisfactory and even comfortable condition of affairs, and the town today ranks well among the best farming sections of the county. The settlement of Jasper was begun in 1807, while the territory formed a part of the original town of Canisteo. The pioneer seems to have been Nicholas Brotzman, sr., or Prutzman, as once known, who came from Tioga County, Pa., and penetrated the dense forests that bordered on Canisteo River and Tuscarora Creek, until he reached the spot where he afterward lived. This pioneer was a German, and was perhaps was one of the most persevering of the early settlers in this whole region. His cabin was built near Marlatt's Corners of later years."
~ Landmarks of Steuben County, New York. Edited by: Hon. Harlo Hakes, Assisted By: L. C. Aldrich and Others. D. Mason & Company, Publishers, Syracuse, New York, 1896
land panorama upland forest Jasper Steuben County New York landscape farm trees clouds sky hills
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Cascading Color ~ Hermitage, Mercer County, Pennsylvania
“Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.” ~ Jim Carrey
nature cascading flora color flowers floral plants garden Hermitage Mercer County Pennsylvania pink
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White-breasted Nuthatch ~ Sitta carolinensis ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” ~ J.M. Barrie
Whitebreasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis Huron River and Watershed Michigan bird short tailed bird black cap rusty spots on belly clings to tree bark moves at odd angles perch upside down on trees largest nuthatch gray blue on back white face and underparts hood birds of mature woods small bird with big voice on the wing fauna
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Barn Swallow ~ Hirundo rustica ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
"In many parts of the world, having Barn Swallows nesting on one's property is considered a sign of good fortune or a harbinger of spring. Legend has it that Barn Swallows consoled Christ on the cross by trying to remove the crown of thorns from his head and attempting to divert those coming to arrest him in the Garden of Gethsemane. Stories are told that Barn Swallows got their forked tails because they stole fire from the gods to give to the people, and their central tail feathers were shortened when they were burnt off by a firebrand hurled by a wrathful deity. Other legends have it that cows will give bloody milk or go dry if anything inopportune happens to the Barn Swallows nesting on a farm; lightning may even strike a house if a Barn Swallow nest is removed." ~ Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica bird blue on the wing feathers bill colbalt blue tawny below agile flyer deeply forked tail nests almost exclusively on human built structures winters in Southern Hemisphere sparrow sized swallow rusty throat and forehead white spots under tail seen only in flight feed almost exclusively in flight long distance migrant fauna
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Cedar Waxwing ~ Bombycilla cedrorum ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all." ~ Stephen King
Bombycilla cedrorum Cedar Waxwing Huron River and Watershed bird wings feathers tail red wax droplets eat berries fauna onthewing waxy red secretions specializes in eating fruiut prominant crest pale hellow belly mediumsized bird social bird short to longdistance migration
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Red-bellied Woodpecker ~ Melanerpes carolinus ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." ~ Stephen Hawking
Redbellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus bird Michigan woodpecker Huron River and Watershed red cap bills wings feathers beak woods on the wing
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Sandhill Crane, Keeping Watch over His Family ~ Antigone canadensis ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and the sky." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
j van cise photos
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Abstract
sea ocean water waves sky froth abstract seascape mist
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Mom Sandhill Crane Teaching Her Adopted Canada Gosling ~ Branta canadensis, Antigone canadensis ~ Kensington Metropark, Michigan
"The Goose that Thought He was a Sandhill Crane"
Canada Gosling Canada Goose Branta.canadensis Sandhill Crane family Kensington Metropark Michigan birds gosling waterfowl bird adopted gosling unlikely pairing on the wing fauna animal nature wildlife Antigone canadensis Huron River Watershed adopted
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Northern Cardinal, Male ~ Cardinalis cardinalis ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
"May you come to find comfort in and remember ~ cardinals appear when angels are near. So go now, sit outside and drink your tea. Keep a look out for the little red bird ~ it is there your loved ones will be." ~ Victoria McGovern
Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis bird Huron River and Watershed red wings feathers bill beak tail nonmigratory do.not.molt prefer sunflower seeds songbird state bird of 7 states prominent crest thick bill black mask male longtailed 16 different calls
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Snowy Egret ~ egretta thula ~ Eastern Seaboard
“Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.” ~ Ansel Adams
Snowy Egret bird Egretta thula beach shore Eastern Seaboard Florida seaside seashore sea coast white plumage black legs yellow feet curvy plumes shorebird oldest17 years heron mediumsized long slender bill spear fish waterbird forager migratory
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Red-bellied Woodpecker ~ Melanerpes carolinus ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.” ~ Paul Strand
Redbellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus bird Michigan Huron River and Watershed woodpecker
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Spring ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Just living is not enough...one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." ~ Hans Christian Anderson
spring springtime Huron River flowers pink flora blooms
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Sanderling ~ Calidris alba ~ New Smyrna Beach, Florida
"May your love be firm, and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores - by day bathed in sunlight, and by night illuminated from within. May the heron carry news of you to the heavens, and the salmon bring the sea's blue grace. May your twin thoughts spiral upward like leafy vines, like fiddle strings in the wind, and be as noble as the Douglas fir. May you never find yourselves back to back without love pulling you around into each other's arms." ~ James Bertolino
Sanderling Calidris alba bird New Smyrna Beach Florida sand beach water wings beak bill Atlantic Oceean Atlantic Seaboard sea seaside seashore sea coast coastline coastal beach coast peeps sandpiper obsessive wave chasers extreme longdistance migrants breed on high Arctic tundra usually monogomous widespread shorebird stout black bill populations declining
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Windswept Snowy Egret ~ Egretta thula ~ New Smyrna Beach, Florida
"It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry." ~ Brenda Peterson
windswept snowy egret Egretta thulla elegant heron white plumage yellow feet plumes New Smyrna Beach Florida beach coast water sand shells wings bird black bill beak feathers Atlantic Ocean Eastern Seaboard Atlantic Seaboard sea ocean may run the waves to forage threat is habitat loss
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Willets ~ Tringa semipalmata ~ New Smyrna Beach, Florida
"I have a room all to myself; it is nature." ~ Henry David Thoreau
Willet Tringa.semipalmata bird shoreline beach Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Seaboard seashore shells distinctive wing markings shorebird piercing call winter colors longlegged straightbilled coastline coast coastal water sand eggs apparently tasty oldest known willet least 10 years heavy barring on breast heavy motting on back feed day and night short to longdistance migrant sandpiper black and white stripe on each week only during flight
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Close-Up of a Woodstork ~ Mycteria americana ~ New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Mycteria americana Wood Stork New Smyrna Beach Florida wader bird soars on thermals balheaded bird just over 3 feet tall harbingers of spring and birth in mythology oldest recorded was 20 years massive long heavy curved bill white bird black flight feathers scaly head football shaped body uncommon in U.S.federally threatened tántalo americano tantale d'amérique
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Snowy Egret ~ Egretta thula ~ New Smyrna Beach, Florida
"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living." ~ David Attenborough
egret Snowy Egret New Smyrna Beach Florida ocean sea beach bird Atlantic Seaboard Atlantic Ocean heron white plumage black legs yellow feet coast breeding plumes once worth twice the cost of gold white heron sometimes chase prey through the waves water bird forager
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grass wind Huron River and Watershed flora nature
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Hooded Merganser ~ Lophodytes cucullatus ~ Huron River and Watershed
Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus Huron River duck crested cavity nesting nicitating membrane oversized head chestnut flank diving bird usually silent
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Brown Pelican ~ Pelecanus occidentalis ~ New Smyrna Beach, Florida
"And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach -- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time." ~ Theodore Roosevelt
brown pelican Florida Pelecanus occidentalis New Smyrna Beach onthewing Eastern Seaboard Fauna Atlantic Ocean seasde bird sinuous neck flight echoes waves plunge dive comeback thanks to pesticide regulations oldest recorded age 43 years giant bill seabird stocky graygrown yellow head white neck coast bird awkward gait on land masterful flier highly social
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No Boundaries
“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains and rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.” ~ Brian Andreas
Indian River Florida New Smyrna Beach river water sky clouds dock ripples boundaries
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Big Sky ~ Indian River, Florida
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all." ~ Emily Dickinson
Indian River Florida clouds weather sunset New Smyrna Beach evening Eastern Seaboard atmosphere meteorological conditions climate
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Black Vulture ~ Coragyps atratus ~ Canaveral National Seashore, Florida
black vulture Coragyps.atratus Canaveral National Seashore Florida bird black plumage bare black head poor sense of smell fierce family royalty most numerous vulture in Western Hemisphere 34 million year old fossils silvery patches on underside Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Seaboard follow Turkey Vultures to food monogamous beneficial scavenger
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Forster's Tern, in non-breeding plumage ~ Sterna forsteri ~ New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri bird birdinflight nonbreeding plumage New Smyrna Beach Florida wings beak shoreline coast seaside seashore tern waves water sky Atlantic Seaboard Eastern Seaboard onthewing fauna mediumsized tern masked bandit commashaped black ear patch in winter plunger Species of Moderate Concern
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Osprey ~ Pandion haliaetus ~ Canaveral National Seashore, Florida
Osprey Canaveral National Seashore Florida Pandion haliaetus bird birdinflight Atlantic Ocean Eastern Seaboard ocean raptor hawk reversible outer toe wings angler bird of prey bone breaker white underparts white head with brown line conservation success story hooked black beak
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Low Tide
"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
low tide seaside sea sea coast seashore seascape Atlantic Ocean water tide plants sea level sealevel fluctuation beach beach front sandy beach New Smyrna Beach Florida coast plants seaside garden shoreline shore flora
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Ring-billed Gull ~ Larus delawarensis ~ Lake Michigan
Ringbilled Gull Larus delawarensis acrobat yellow bill with black band builtin compass pale eyes yellow legs omnivore ground forager bird on the wing Lake Michigan water fauna Great Lakes
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The Patrol ~ Indian River North, Florida
Indian River North Florida Brown Pelicans birds sign patrol fauna onthewing
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Little Blue Heron ~ Egretta caerulea ~ Port St. Lucie, Florida
"i'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I can fly." ~ Joy Fielding
blue and purple bird Egretta caerulea aigrette plumes white during first stage of life oldest known 13 years plus Little Blue Heron Garceta Azul Aigrette bleue daggerlike bill small heron purple maroon head dark blue body bird water yellow eyes stand and wait predator fauna Eastern Seaboard species of High Concern 2 rain
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Flying Dragon Waterfall ~ Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens ~ Delray Beach, Florida
waterfall cascade water falls steep incline cataract shower torrent overflowing chute downfall gush stream flow plunge downrush watercourse spout falling stream rush tumble spill Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens Delray Beach Florida nature
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Great Blue Heron ~ Ardea herodias ~ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Florida
Great Blue Heron in flight river Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens Coral Gardens Florida bird Ardea herodias slow deep wingbeats bluegray plumage tucked in neck long legs powder down night vision oldest24 years massive silhouette long orangish bill black crown head plumes largest North American heron wild black stripe over eye daggerlike bill water rocks reflections
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Royal Terns (with Laughing Gulls) ~ Thalasseus maximus ~ Port St. Lucie, Florida
Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus greatest sea fisherman Ancient Greek bird redorange bill black cap during breeding season lives on the coast only found near salt water seabird webbed feet more streamlines than gulls black legs patchy in winter Atlantic Ocean Port St. Lucie Florida sand seacoast saside diving bird fiercely defensive of nest and young ocean beach oldest 30 years banded in North Carolina short forked tail inflight fauna
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Little Blue Heron ~ Egretta caerulea ~ Port St. Lucie, Florida
"i'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I can fly." ~ Joy Fielding
blue and purple bird Egretta caerulea aigrette plumes white during the first stage of life oldest known 13 years Little Blue Heron Garceta Azul Aigrette bleue daggerlike bill small heron purple maroon head dark blue body bird water Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Seaboard ocean sea seaside rocks yellow eyes stand and wait predator fauna Eastern Seaboard species of High Concern 2016
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Leap of Faith ~ Brown Pelican ~ Port St. Lucie, Florida ~ Pelecanus occidentalis
“Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work.” ~ J.R. Rim
Pelecanus occidentalis Brown Pelican Port St. Lucie Florida oversize bill sinuous neck plunge divers oldest pelican 43 years seabird in flight leap of faith stretchy throat pouch surf updrafts strong swimmers Eastern Seaboard Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Seaboard seaside seacoast rocks water squadrons echo motions of waves sea ocean brd nature fauna animal
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Brown Pelican, Juvenile ~ Port St. Lucie, Florida ~ Pelecanus occidentalis
“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
~ Marc Riboud
Pelecanus occidentalis Brown Pelican Port St. Lucie Florida oversized bill sinuous neck squadrons echo motions of the waves plungedivers oldest pelican 43 years seabird inflight stretchy throat pouch surf supdrafts masterful fliers strong swimmers Eastern Seaboard Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Seaboard sea ocean seacoast waves water bird
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Pair of Wood Storks in the Rain ~ Mycteria americana
"Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
wading bird Wood Stork scaly head Mycteria americana bald headed bird Florida Port St. Lucie black and white wings longlegged wetland bird swamp habitat soar on thermals uncommon in U.S.federally threatened primarily not migratory Eastern Seaboard
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Bird Flying High ~ Eastern Seaboard
"Bird flyin' high
You know how I feel
Sun in the sky
You know how I feel
Breeze drifting by
You know how I feel...."
~ Songwriters: Gladys Knight, Al Claiborne, G. Garcia, Edesio Alejandro Rodriguez
wings sunlight bird in flight sky clouds bird ocean sea
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