This is where we live now. All of these images were shot right here at our little circle.
This little guy seems to have taken up residence here.
I see him nearly every day now, but he's not fond of being photo-
graphed. As of today, there are 57 photos on 2 pages.
This is one of the few sea-
birds here that I have no
trouble identifying, though
they are not as common
as the herons and Ibis I see
here often. Actually, I may
be wrong referring to them
as seabirds. Tropical wetlands
are where they live, to be
more accurate.
The adults I've seen are
always brown with white
speckles, and the juveniles
are brown–backed. Their
bills are adept at removing
snails from their shells, which
is exactly what I saw here.
I learn from Audubon and
The Cornell Lab Of Ornithology
that we find them in Florida and
south Georgia, the Caribbean,
Central and South America,
and Mexico.
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These are the remnants of the Limpkin's dinner. They pull snails in their shells out of the canal and somehow manage to ex-
tract them. I have some photos of this, but it's gross, so I won't post them. I find the shells alongside of the canal. Today I found a lot o
a different type of shell, a different creature I suppose, but alongside the pond. That's a first. One of these was quite beautiful inside, so I brought it home. I plan to do some studio shots of it with my macro lens. The first two pics are from by the pond, and the last two, snail shells, from by the canal.
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