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As we prepared to enter one of the swamps on a little Nature/Photo tour this Egret stood by as if standing guard and watching anyone who entered.
Taken at 'the spot' (see Album), and uploaded for Chrissie... :)
note: I tried to tag you, Chrissie, but Flickr won't let me...
Hey, we don't have any deep swamps! This is in a patch of swamp land just outside of the mangroves of the Hastings River.
Swamp hibiscus are our last hibiscus to bloom. But the plants are 7 feet tall (as is the ironweed in back - which is about to bloom) so difficult to shoot.
yesterday, Georgia yard
Going to 95o again today - and it's incredibly humid.
In my Gold Coast hinterland garden early this morning Wallabia bicolour grazing for breakfast. The larger one looks to be a female and is the rare gold morph which evolved on Stradbroke Island and is also very occasionally seen on the Queensland Gold Coast. This is my third sighting in the last ten years. The smaller wallaby which I have seen regularly is a juvenile and possibly the offspring of the other. I have seen the possible father grazing here once in the last few weeks. Swamp wallabies are very widely distributed along the east coast of Australia. The Golden Swamp Wallaby sighting makes this a special day.
Slow birding these days. The influx of new birds has been pretty slow, probably due to the unpredictable weather. Yesterday, we had thunderstorms with heavy winds that toppled trees and caused property damage. I doubt the birds would want to travel in such uncertain conditions.
Swamp sparrows are migratory new world sparrows that typically leave upstate NY, but there is a small area in southern New York where they stay through winter. With climate change, it is likely that the area increases in which swamp sparrows won‘t migrate. I took this bird‘s picture in May, well within the typical time during which swamp sparrows are expected there.