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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.
In Explore.
More stormy weather down our way, beats me how the Porthcawl Lighthouse survives this constant battering.
Also, thought I'd mention that there is in fact three lighthouses in this picture, that's correct, three and I'm not going mad! If you follow the far horizon to its furthest right you can just make out the two Nash Point towers.
51°28'24.40"N 3°42'4.51"W
The swamp is an interesting area in Dumbarton with diverse wildlife.
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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.
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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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!
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.
The Prothonotary Warbler. A stunning bird that navigates and lives in the swamp. Very lucky to have finally seen and photographed one recently. Only for a few moments while passing through!
I thought this was "Swamp Milkweed", but my neighbor Katherine corrected me. It's actually called Purpletop Vervain or Verbena bonariensis! (It was in her garden!}
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.
Same individual as yesterday in a more classic profile. A well adapted bird... Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary, West Alton, Missouri
These sparrows are winter residents in Missouri, and can be found in large numbers at regional wetlands around St Louis. They like to keep a low profile when possible, but will frequently pop up among the brown reeds. Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary, West Alton, Missouri
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."
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
A marshy swamp in the mountains? I know, crazy right? This sits at around 3,800ft in elevation between Clay and Macon County in Western North Carolina. I had considered doing a big impressive sunset over the swamp here, but found this composition by the lakeside as the light was waning a bit. So I scuttled my plans to try and get some decent light shooting from the road and hunkered down on the soft wet ground shooting across the swamp into this mountain top in the distance. Found this log in the foreground, unfortunately I ignored my own advice and didn't bend this sapling back and it sits prominently in the bottom right. Otherwise I enjoy this shot, the colors, contrast, light reflections.
ISO: 160
Aperture: f4
SS: 1/125
Focal: 33mm
A K&F CPL to help brighten the blues in the sky, cut through the reflections a bit.. This is a focus stack of 42 images.
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Alligator moving out in the swamp below the boardwalk at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples, FL.
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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.