Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

Been off the grid so long I will try to catch up...Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge

is chock full of wading birds of all sorts...great place to visit...Im just going to run some photos I took ...

it was quite foggy as I got out early...

the fog makes for great sound enhancements tho...and a beautiful fog rainbow!!

  

a. avocets in the fog

Willet

Stilt Sandpiper Droop on bill 

Dunlin in foreground Semipalmated Sandpiper in rear...

black skimmers

lesser scaup

white ibis

Roseate Spoonbills

Greater Yellowlegs

glossy ibis

green heron

blue winged teal

black pointe drive

common moorhen

reddish egret

osprey

common loon

wood storks

mottled duck

manatee seen down the road from the wildlife drive

snowy egret

and lastly I liked this shot it has so much going on!!

max brewer bridge and the city of Titusville, FL in background in the mist..

Im behind as usual but my next stop is Big Cypress National Preserve!

Hope you are all doing well I'll catch up to your blogs when I have electricity..right now I have about one slither of battery left...

PEACE

Eleanor Roosevelt: You must do the thing you think you can not.

Swamps Are Gardens too!

Swan Lake and Gardens is basically a swamp! The water is shallow, filled with Cyprus trees and the water is now smothered with duckweed, a tiny small 2 lobed plant the size of a pin head! Its not a good plant to have in a LAKE...as it cuts out sunlight from reaching the bottoms of the lake bed.  When wild birds fly from one lake to the other they can transport this weed on their feathers and feet so it gets moved around pretty fast and it grows like wildfire I put some in my wee water garden and its now filled and clogging my pump!

Swan Lake has a large collection of swans....they roam and swim openly through out the park...although I don't see any fly...so I'm assuming the wings are clipped some way that makes me sad, I go to see the other wildlife that fly in and out of the area it is a Wildlife area too.  And the swans are beautiful, and well cared for.  We had a nice cool day for a change so we wandered around and enjoyed what we saw!!!

                                                            Australian   Black Swan 

                                                                         Pond Sliders

The Green Anole

                  

                                                             the Belted Kingfisher 

                  

                                                               Egret in a tree

                                              Mute Swan Foreground Whooper Swan background

Always a fun place to visit. 

PEACE

Eleanor Roosevelt: You must do the thing you think you can not.