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Another Great Blue Heron in another part of the swamp.
From Bird Web:
Behavior
Great Blue Herons are often seen flying high overhead with slow wing-beats. When foraging, they stand silently along riverbanks, lake shores, or in wet meadows, waiting for prey to come by, which they then strike with their bills. They will also stalk prey slowly and deliberately. Although they hunt predominantly by day, they may also be active at night. They are solitary or small-group foragers, but they nest in colonies. Males typically choose shoreline areas for foraging, and females and juveniles forage in more upland areas.
I think this heron found the most picturesque spot in the swamp - plus its added reflection.
Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in southwest Florida is a very unique place, conserving several different biomes in one conserved area. This is the swamp, with the butressed trunks of relatively young Bald Cypress standing in the water.
Each year that my wife and I visit Corkscrew it seems that another of the 100-year old cypresses sadly is lost to the latest large hurricane.
The swamp is an interesting area in Dumbarton with diverse wildlife.
DARK SWAMP BLUES on the Dobro Duolian • “EXIT 2020”
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A trek through the brush and rough terrain at sunrise led to a surprise discovery of this "hidden world". I had a hunch there was a wonderful setting here, but didn't know exact;y where until I stumbled across this small lake in the middle of nowhere.
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A nice fresh female Monarch butterfly feeding on swamp milkweed. I'm seeing Monarchs migrating south every time I walk in the park these days.
From the Florida Wildflower Foundation:
Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
Buttonbush is a large wetland shrub that produces many globular, white flowers with protruding pistils that cause it to look like a pincushion. The fragrant flowers are about 2 inches in diameter and attract a number of bees and butterflies. Buttonbush’s leaves are dark green and shiny on top, although pale underneath. They are arranged in opposite pairs or in whorls. In the fall, buttonbush produces hard, reddish-brown nutlets that are eaten by some water fowl.
The genus Cephalanthus comes from the Greek words for "head" (cephale) and "flower"(authos).
From me:
I've found these growing wild in swamps and wetlands both, always with some shade during the day.
This sweet swamp scene was somewhere down a dirt road after McCutcheon’s Falls and before Kingston, no GPS on my camera so no way to be sure where its location is. Unlocated but like most of my life’s small but great visual offerings I come on them by happenstance though some would say things are put in our path to teach us. Whether by chance or not it is our choice that determines whether we stop to take in the scene and see the beauty in the everyday or we continue to see through the blinders of our own making that keep us focused on the unimportant.
I took this on Sept 27th, 2021 with my D850 and Tamron 24-70 f2.8 G2 Lens at 24mm, 0.8s, f5.6 ISO 64 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia ,and DXO Nik
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Swamp Smoothies "green Smoothies" typically have raw rotted fruits, vegetables, algae, tadpoles, minnows, protozoa, gator bits, snake skin, and fresh tea colored water.
Highly nutritious smoothies include dietary fiber (e.g. pulp, skin, and seeds) and are thicker than fruit juice, often with a consistency similar to a milkshake.
The Swamp Sparrow has longer legs than other members of its genus; this adaptation allows it to wade into shallow water to forage. This species even sometimes sticks its head under water to try to capture aquatic invertebrates.
My region is a land of swamps. Sometimes it may be attractive.
An HDR pano, taken right before the sunrise, when it's wet, cool and lovely in its own way.
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Caught between the plant stems, I like the background on this shot. Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary in West Alton, Missouri