Why we move to Florida.... this weekend at the wetlands.
Dec 4, 2016 11:03:06 #
After enduring a miserably hot and humid summer, the gorgeous weather has returned. Maybe someday I will become a "snowbird" and spend the summer in Maine. But this weekend finds the weather here to be in the 60's and 70's, sunny, and with a breeze. Could not be better!
I love to take a walk in the wetlands any day that I can (the nearby Viera Wetlands). Almost always something different. But here are the "usual suspects" from this weekend. I almost want to apologize for some of my photos - because no where that I have ever been does the wildlife let you walk by so close - it makes it almost TOO easy! A head shot of a great blue heron from six feet away - routine every day photo... It is one of THE best spots for photographing birds in the country.
I love to take a walk in the wetlands any day that I can (the nearby Viera Wetlands). Almost always something different. But here are the "usual suspects" from this weekend. I almost want to apologize for some of my photos - because no where that I have ever been does the wildlife let you walk by so close - it makes it almost TOO easy! A head shot of a great blue heron from six feet away - routine every day photo... It is one of THE best spots for photographing birds in the country.
See-through anhinga!
Sandhill crane from five feet!
Lunch, anyone?
Pretty in pink!
Surveying the wetlands!
Dec 4, 2016 11:07:42 #
Your pictures are beautiful. Why I moved to Arizona its a dry heat little humidity and we also have lots of birding and few bugs. LOL
Dec 4, 2016 11:30:15 #
Great shooting Steve!!! I will send you a few snow balls as the winter starts here!:):) For some reason, I still love the winter time. That might change some day.:):)
Dec 4, 2016 11:34:19 #
Haha. I spent 27 years in Central Florida, got tired of sweating 10 months out of the year.
Dec 4, 2016 11:47:11 #
Good et Steve, just for the record, its about 5 below here but beautiful clear sky,
Geoff
Geoff
sb wrote:
After enduring a miserably hot and humid summer, t... (show quote)
Dec 4, 2016 11:55:36 #
Dec 4, 2016 13:28:12 #
db2step wrote:
Your pictures are beautiful. Why I moved to Arizona its a dry heat little humidity and we also have lots of birding and few bugs. LOL
Thanks - I also love Arizona (well - Phoenix not so much...) - but don't get out there often enough. The mountains south of Tucson are great, the "red rocks" of Sedona are awesome, and I was fortunate to spend a summer many decades ago working in Whiteriver and explored Mt Baldy and that area and visited the Navajo reservation - and Canyon de Chelley - very mystical!
Dec 4, 2016 13:28:27 #
Dec 4, 2016 13:29:26 #
Longshadow wrote:
Haha. I spent 27 years in Central Florida, got tired of sweating 10 months out of the year.
Well - it's only four or five, and as Floridians say: at least during OUR miserable months we don't have to shovel anything". The snowbirds have the best of both worlds...
Dec 4, 2016 13:32:51 #
GWR100 wrote:
Good et Steve, just for the record, its about 5 below here but beautiful clear sky,
Geoff
Geoff
Thanks, Geoff - but come on - that's probably Celsius, right? When WE say "five below" we are freezing our butts off! Minus five Celsius - in Maine we would have considered that to be springtime!
But a cold sunny day is a thousand times better than a cold overcast day wherever you are! (I am glad to be living where it doesn't get five below Celsius OR Fahrenheit!).Dec 4, 2016 13:36:50 #
Erv wrote:
Great shooting Steve!!! I will send you a few snow balls as the winter starts here!:):) For some reason, I still love the winter time. That might change some day.:):)
Thanks, Erv. All things in moderation. I did not mind the winters in Maine as much as did my wife ("I am NOT going to spend another winter here" I recall her saying!). And you know what they say - "Happy wife, happy life"! Of course, we were an hour from the nearest traffic light - no shopping, no decent restaurants (great seafood in the summer, though!), a grocery store with no interesting and/or ethnic food options.... at least we had satellite TV and high-speed internet!
Oh - I just realized I had forgotten to add a photo of today's basking little friend....
Dec 4, 2016 14:11:22 #
Dec 4, 2016 17:16:24 #
Steve, very nice series and a great reminder about Viera! I must have a thing for cranes because I love your Sandhill close up and the Great Blue doing his thing in the treetops.
Dec 4, 2016 17:19:17 #
sb wrote:
Well - it's only four or five, and as Floridians say: at least during OUR miserable months we don't have to shovel anything". The snowbirds have the best of both worlds...
Dec 4, 2016 20:14:25 #
Beautiful set, Steve, and for about the next three months, my mind if not my body will be there. By about mid-February, I've seen more than enough of brown, grey, and white, and just looking for an excuse to bolt! Just maybe I'll see you in the wetlands about then!
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