Sorry about the wind noise - but better than people and their noisy vehicles, drones, etc.
Still sifting through photos & videos, more to come...
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And a "new" video (Spring Cleaning time!) ... more Limpkins.
Still photo is a "Limpkin in Flight"
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It was a bittersweet return to Myakka River SP after its double-destruction, first the Weir, and then Hurricane Ian....
But it is spring, nature is eternal and resilient, and nesting and mating seasons are still honored, though there was loss & displacement.
Myakka lost its weir, which was year-round home to roseate spoonbills, herons, egrets, and types of vulture, and photography heaven.
Then the already flooded area was whipped by the hurricane, swallowing land and also disrupting waterways and things like gator nests.
One of the residents fairly unique to here in their numbers, are limpkins, whose diet is dependent mostly on apple snails.
So I was pleased to find a large colony of them, now in more open water (Lake Myakka) than the smaller protected pond now gone.
Anhingas are around too, and in even greater numbers a bit further north. But no glossy ibises or roseates at all... :((
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Mmm, yummy
A great egret about to enjoy his/her catch, as the ibis waits for its turn.
Below: Dinner (escargot!) for a limpkin.
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As we fly into the weekend, last of October 2021....
Two shots - solo egret and the pair by the water.
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A short (53s) video - A limpkin finds a large and challenging mollusk. Its preferred diet, which is easily accommodated here, is the apple snail. But this looks like a hard closed-shell mollusk. Despite its specialized beak, this took a bit of work, and persistence.
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