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Snowy
Egret
Most people have at least some experience photographing
mountains, sunsets, sea shores and lakes. Swamps and
marshlands are different . . . |
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Red
Shouldered Hawk
This red shouldered hawk illustrates the difficulty
in even spotting wildlife in the Everglades.
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Sanibel
Island Turtle
This female turtle was emerging from the nest where she
had just finished laying her eggs and was headed back to
the marsh. Her shell measured about 16 inches in length. |
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A
Small but Active Alligator
Everywhere I went in South Florida there were
alligators. Elsewhere in this country, you see deer
and rabbits and wood chucks and prairie dogs as you .
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Great
Blue Heron
The great blue heron is standing in the surf on the
public beach on the northern end of Sanibel Island. We
had gone to gather sea shells at Bowman's Beach . . . |
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Roseate
Spoonbill
We found this pretty Roseate Spoonbill in the J.
N. Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel
Island. According to our guide, about a dozen of these
birds . . . |
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Agave
Americana
Anne F. Bellenger, a retired Everglades
biologist, identified these almost 6-foot tall plants we
found on Hutchinson Island as Agave. Agave
expert John Dicus further identifies it as Agave
Americana, a designation confirmed by British Agave
authority Jan Kolendo. |
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Millions
of Acres of Sawgrass
The one wild thing of which there is probably the most in Florida
is sawgrass -- millions of acres of if. This
is a view of the Everglades looking northeast from
the Pahayokee Overlook, which about half way
between Homestead and Seminole. Ordinarily
this sawgrass . . . |
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Anhinga
on Mangrove Roots
The Anhinga was a common sight in the mangrove
swamps of southern Florida. Typically those we saw
were posed much as this one with its back to the sun and
wings outspread as though to soak up the heat. Since it
was February at the time, this may have been the
situation. |
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