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Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Sanibel Island, FL (John N "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Reserve)

This is a bird I've rarely seen and it was tough to ID - with yellow legs and a distinctly different beak than most herons. (More like a toucan!) Plus the uniquely patterned feathers and "face mask" (perfect for the times?!)

Yellow-crowned Night Heron

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Sunny Day

Let's hope for them in many more places. Happy Spring Weekend 2022.

Here Paul Simon talks about how his song's lyrics came about and then he plays & sings it solo. In this version the song lyrics are onscreen and also in the description.

The much more polished studio version is @ https://youtu.be/Kz9o3tf9lmk

Those smiles were courtesy of the Sunshine State. On a sunny day, with only blue skies.

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I failed in my revised "bucket list" of new photography challenges while re-visiting some favorite swamps, marshes, rivers, and lakes.

First I wanted to video the song of the black-bellied whistling duck ("what's it whistling?"), but it's dry now and they were not in their usual spot. Then someone gave me a tip about where a rare cuckoo (non-human) was just seen nesting, but no luck.

So...

Bungled in the Jungle.

And just then, this song came on the radio (Sirius Classic Vinyl). Ooooh. Cosmic timing!

And as a consolation prize, I did run into a big pod of white Pelicans (though a bit distant in a cove, at low tide, Sanibel Island).
And some roseate spoonbills, armadillos, cormorants, and close-up Cooper's Hawk.

White Pelicans

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