Month: December 2016

For this last day of the year, I’m sharing my space with this handsome fellow, who seemed to think that a leisurely stroll  on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico was just the right way to enjoy a December day.

… have Laughing Gulls gathered on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, to argue and laugh? To share information about the best spot to scoop up a meal?

And then to lift off effortlessly and soar up and down the beach as if they owned the place?  Which, of course, they do.

(This image was modified using certain tools in Photoshop. I kind of like it. But, more importantly, Jerri likes it!)

This Great Blue Heron decided to keep an eye on some guy’s fishing rod, just in case he got a bite and needed help reeling in his catch.

Or maybe he was waiting for an opportunity to do a little fishing of his own by dipping into the guy’s bait bucket filled with live minnows.

Sneaky devil!

This guy is closer to the road than usual.  I think the Ospreys have scared the Great Blue Herons back deeper into the woods at Fort Pickens in the past couple of years.

But once the Ospreys migrate out of here for the winter, the GBHs have the run of the place and can hangout wherever they want.

Until March, of course.  Then the rowdies all come back home for nesting season.

We do the best we can around here in the wintertime.  Not much snow to work with, so we used the tools at hand.

This handsome guy was standing tall on the beach at Battery Langdon today.  The mid-December temperature – a balmy 76 degrees.

Welcome to Florida!  This is really why we live here.

Just a quick visit to Admiral Mason Park around noon today. It’s cold! Too cold for my old achy bones and toes.  But beautiful nevertheless.

Didn’t see any birds. But sunlight shimmering on the water and lots of lily pads blowing in the breeze makes for a nice view anyhow.

One of the very few Ospreys still around GINS, near Fort Pickens.  All alone up there in his tree, snacking on a fish.

He seemed to be having a fine time.