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Some geese from spring.
http://volcano.photobucket.com/album...and_chicks.jpg

http://volcano.photobucket.com/album...se_gosling.jpg

http://volcano.photobucket.com/album...ese_family.jpg

http://volcano.photobucket.com/album...ese_chicks.jpg

These are cute pics. I love the little baby gooses.

took this tonite:

http://www.pbase.com/image/25217824.jpg

mr b

c'mon splck. no pictures of kids :lol:


great shots anyhow. thanks.

naked young geese or Goose porn
:)

mr b

nice shots splck.

i knew you had a yellow streak

I've got a lot of geese photo's.

Every summer we get around 20-40 for a good 3 months solid that come to our pond.

And for the last 4 years or so, we've had these two geese that will literally come right up to our patio. We know its the same two since they've got these weird markings on thier chest. Amazinly none of the ones that come to our land ever have tags.
http://www.disp0sable.org/gallery/th...lbum=21&page=2
http://www.disp0sable.org/gallery/th...lbum=21&page=3
http://www.disp0sable.org/gallery/th...lbum=21&page=4

Have photo's of the ones that seem to be fearless of humans.

I had to drive over to Miami last Thursday and always stop while traveling back across Alligator Alley and take some photos. Caught this egret posing for me.

http://www.tropicdiver.com/egretsmall.jpg

florida has such vibrant colors.....i cant wait til summer when we will have more than white, brown, and black for color.

Great detail on those. What lens are you using?

Was on Sanibel Island a couple of afternoons, ago, and found some semi-friendly pelicans, which I guess qualify for waterfowl, right?

There were three pelicans that were posing for me, but this guy seemed to be the most courageous of the bunch.

They seemed to come in all colors and sizes... just like us. ;-)

I think I've found a new subject to take photos of.

The next time, I'll bring along some bait fish, so they won't want to fly away. ;-)

Here's a pelican I got close up and had some time with this morning.

i know, i know, it could be closer...but i was on a passing sailboat

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I really like brown pelican photos, and yours are great! Thanks for sharing.

Wonderful close ups..the quality is amazing..thank you for sharing

I was on Lovers Key (just south of Ft. Myers Beach a few miles), yesterday, and managed to capture a white ibis with my camera. I had no idea, until yesterday, they had blue eyes!

http://www.tropicdiver.com/ibis2.jpg

A great blue Heron on Captiva a couple of nites, ago.

birds are evil!!!

nice pictures though. :-) you are very brave for getting close enough to them to take those awesome shots. and good thing too, because i would NEVER get that close to one of those things!

Same bird trying to convince me he was an ostrich. ;)

A heron fishing for a late nite snack.

that same heron you were talking about on captiva...is he in south seas plantation? cuz there was a huge one there who had lived there forever it seemed like...but i thought he died

No, that (the one I photographed) Great Blue Heron was on the very southern tip of Captiva (at the bridge where the islands used to separate, but no longer do) and South Sea Plantations, as you know, is on the northern tip of Captiva. Whether it is the same Heron you are refering to or not, I have no idea. Great Blues are a rather frequent bird down here.

well ill be damned, the islands arent separated by water anymore?! its been about 3 or 4 years since ive been there

Nope, Mother Nature decided they needed to be one, I guess. You still drive over the bridge that connects Sanibel and Captiva, but you can walk from one to another on the sand, also. I remember when people used to drown between the two islands, from the swift current that separated them, but not no more, so perhaps that is a good thing. :)

The next time I drive out there, I'll stop and take a photo of the area to show you it is one, now.