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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.
Viewed by naturalists and other scientists as one of the best outdoor laboratories in the world, this vast swamp, a national wildlife refuge, is nearly 113,00 acres (45729 hectares) in size.
Our first American president, George Washington, was an early surveyor of this landform.
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Some view swamps as dangerous, miserable, humid, mosquito infested, stagnant spots of earth. Not me.
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.
This photographer was spotted during the early hours on that misty morning on Caddo Lake.
His presence added proper scale to the size of the Bald Cypress trees found there.
Hope everyone's Spring has sprung nicely & y'all are doing just fine......
Happy Sunday !
Thanks for dropping by and taking a look.
I've had a lot of luck this year photographing swamp sparrows. This guy landed on a great spot and stayed there long enough for me to get several shots. I wish every bird were as cooperative!
Taxi : Here
ᴵᴺᶠᴼ ( We hope to see you all in the Foggy Swamp during the next 2 months, to have a great time exploring and enjoy the scenery as we tried to do our best in giving you a special Halloween feeling! )
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.
Swamp Lilies are abundant in late summer at Corkscrew Swamp, but this one was blooming in February. According to Sanctuary literature, "white-tailed deer will search this plant out for a tasty snack."
Caught between the plant stems, I like the background on this shot. Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary in West Alton, Missouri
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.
Thank you for all the comments and faves, my friends. Going to be very busy next 2 weeks.
While at Great Dismal Swamp, I met two photographers who talked cameras with me. The British gentleman quizzed me about my iPhone and once satisfied that it was set to RAW, the American gave Don directions to Merchants Millpond State Park. A mere thirty miles away in North Carolina, it had our kind of campground. Underused, secluded, heavily wooded, with campsites widely spaced apart. And best of all, Lassiter - a swampier swamp than Dismal.