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  • Great blue heron in breeding plumage photographed on Merritt Island near the Kennedy Space Center in Central Florida.
    Great Blue Heron
  • Great blue heron portrait in the Florida Everglades.
    Great Blue Heron
  • Great blue heron close-up shot with tongue sticking out in the Florida Everglades. Who knew herons had such long tongues?
    Great Blue Heron
  • A blue heron huddles for warmth on a cold winter day by the Grand Lagoon in Panama City, Florida.
    Great Blue Heron
  • Smallest of all the sandpipers, this least sandpiper was actively hunting among the rocks and pools of water along the beach of Del Rey Lagoon in Los Angeles, California on a sunny spring morning. This amazing tiny migratory bird breeds in the arctic, yet spends its winters as far south as Chile and Brazil!
    Least Sandpiper
  • A great blue heron catches a northwestern garter snake in the wetlands in the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge just outside of Olympia, Washington on a beautiful springtime afternoon.
    Great Blue Heron - Dinner for One
  • A great blue heron in winter plumage perches over a pond in Washington's Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. I photographed this same heron several times this day, and with the changing light, this image came out beautifully backlit when the sun started coming through the clouds.
    Great Blue Heron
  • A great blue heron in winter plumage stands on one leg over a pond in Washington's Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, waiting out the rain on a very chilly morning.
    Great Blue Heron
  • The American coot is a very common water bird found throught North America. Often found among ducks, it is actually not a duck at all, but a member of the rail family. This one was photographed near the base of the Nisqually River as it joins Washington's Puget Sound.
    American Coot
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  • A trio of green-winged teals (two males and a female) seen swimming at the base of the Nisqually River. These smallest of the Pacific Northwest's ducks were photographed in the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge at the southern tip of the Puget Sound.
    Green-winged Teals
  • A pair of baby Great Egrets standing on a branch with their nest deep in a Florida swamp.
    Baby Great Egrets with Nest
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  • The official status of the red-headed woodpecker is "near threatened" and their population is in a decline.
    Red-headed Woodpecker
  • Male pileated woodpecker concentrating on finding insects under the bark of the melaleuca tree in Lee County, Florida.
    Pileated Woodpecker
  • Male pileated woodpecker in a melaleuca tree in Fort Myers, Florida. The male has red feathers on the cheeks and from the crown of the head to the beak.
    Pileated Woodpecker
  • The smallest American woodpecker, it is just as quick and unpredictable as its larger cousins, and can be maddening to photograph!
    Downy Woodpecker
  • This stunning woodpecker was drilling a series of holes in a stand of slash pines in Wakulla County, Florida.
    Red-headed Woodpecker
  • A pair of pileated woodpeckers in Fort Myers, Florida. One cannot mistake them for anything else in the wild. When drumming on trees, it literally sounds like a jackhammer!
    Pileated Woodpecker
  • Downy Woodpecker hunted down and photographed in the Fakahatchee Strand in SW Florida. It is very difficult to follow any bird in the swamps!
    Downy Woodpecker
  • Female pileated woodpecker in a melaleuca tree in Fort Myers. This huge woodpecker is often seen in forests and woodlands all over Florida.
    Pilated Woodpecker
  • A male red-bellied woodpecker looking for insects among the oak trees on North Florida.
    Red-bellied Woodpecker
  • A great blue heron at dawn looking over the salt marshes of the St. Marks National Wildlife refuge in North Florida ona cold winter morning.
    Great Blue Heron
  • Great blue heron on the lookout in the Florida Everglades.
    Great Blue Heron
  • Great blue heron with crest in the Florida Everglades.
    Great Blue Heron
  • Great blue heron close-up in the Florida Everglades. These huge wading birds ore often found at the water's edge hunting frogs and fish.
    Great Blue Heron
  • A young great blue heron just beginning to get its adult coloration in the Sweetwater Strand in the Big Cypress National Preserve.
    Juvenile Great Blue Heron
  • A blue heron huddles for warmth on a cold winter day by the Grand Lagoon in Panama City, Florida.
    Great Blue Heron
  • A stunning male cattle egret in full breeding plumage ruffles its feathers on the water's edge in Carrabelle, Florida.
    Cattle Egret in Breeding Plumage
  • A pair of white ibis scavenging for insects and worms beneath the lawn of a local city park in Titusville, Florida.
    Pair of White Ibis
  • A pair of roseate spoonbills and a white ibis hunt for small fish and crustaceans in the shallow waters of Merritt Island, on Florida's East Coast.
    Roseate Spoonbills
  • Roseate spoonbill in flight over the backwaters of Sanibel Island.
    Roseate Spoonbill
  • A pair of baby wood storks with parent standing on a branch with their nest deep in a Florida swamp.
    Baby Wood Storks with Nest
  • A young roseate spoonbill in the late afternoon Florida sun on Sanibel Island.
    Roseate Spoonbill
  • Although not native to America, this native to Europe, Asia and North Africa has spread to every continent on the planet except Antarctica. This one saved me the time of going to find him, and let me photograph him on my back porch!
    House Sparrow
  • A pair of baby Great Egrets standing on a branch with their nest deep in a Florida swamp.
    Great White Egret Chicks
  • Juvenile red-bellied woodpecker resting on a fence post after leaving its nest in a nearby dead palm. These loud woodpeckers are the most commonly seen in South Florida.
    Juvenile Red-bellied Woodpecker
  • A rare close-up of a red-headed woodpecker along the Gulf Coast of North Florida.
    Red-headed Woodpecker
  • Portrait of a  blue heron in Panama City, Florida.
    Great Blue Heron
  • Glossy ibis in flight at the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge.
    Glossy Ibis
  • An endangered wood stork catches a crab in a Sanibel Island estuary.
    Wood Stork
  • An immature male northern shoveler spreads his wings on a small pond in Medina, WA on a chilly spring late afternoon. It's darkening head will soon be a brilliant metallic green, much like the common mallard, but its long bill will remain black.
    Northern Shoveler
  • A close-up of a massive gaggle of Aleutian cackling geese in the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge between Tacoma & Olympia, Washington. Until 2004 the cackling goose was considered same species as the Canada goose, but is the size of a duck, has a very short bill, and has a much higher-pitched honk. The Aleutian cackling goose subspecies breeds in northern Alaska and Canada in the tundra near water, and travels south to California in winter. Making a comeback from near extinction, it has now been removed from the endangered species list.
    Aleutian Cackling Geese
  • This (possibly hybrid) glaucous-winged gull was seen on the shore of the Puget Sound as it bathes and splashed in a shallow pool. This noisy large gull has a large bill with a bright red spot - characteristics helpful in distinguishing it from other similar-looking gulls.
    Glaucous-winged Gull
  • A sandwich tern in winter plumage resting on the sand on South Lido Beach on SW Florida's Gulf Coast. Easily identified by the yellow tip on the bill.
    Sandwich Tern
  • The improbable-looking black skimmer  - the unique bill is used for catching its food while skimming the water's surface with an open beak - in flight!
    Black Skimmer
  • A raft of surf scoters drifts by on Washington's Hood Canal on a brisk late afternoon. A type of large diving sea duck, the drakes (males) have beautifully bright orange and white bills with a black spot while typical in most ducks, the hens (females) have a rather drab coloration by comparison. Surf scoters can be found in the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans, where they typically breed in the tundra of Alaska and Northern Canada, and are very occasionally seen on the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes and even the British Isles.
    Surf Scoters
  • A raft of surf scoters drifts by on Washington's Hood Canal on a brisk late afternoon. A type of large diving sea duck, the drakes (males) have beautifully bright orange and white bills with a black spot while typical in most ducks, the hens (females) have a rather drab coloration by comparison. Surf scoters can be found in the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans, where they typically breed in the tundra of Alaska and Northern Canada, and are very occasionally seen on the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes and even the British Isles.
    Surf Scoters
  • Garry oak leaves in the sagebrush desert just outside of Yakima, Washington. This attractive tree is native to Oregon, Washington and British Columbia and is depended upon by many different species of wildlife for their survival, such as the western gray squirrel, Lewis woodpecker, and slender billed nuthatch.
    Garry Oak Leaves