Things That Fly…..Or Not

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Finishing up Alabama with this post, so I can get to what I’ve been shooting in Florida in the next one.  🙂

Having less than a week in Alabama and then skedaddling out of there for an impending hurricane, I didn’t get much of a chance to explore for birds except from our camp site.

When we ventured out, we were on our bikes exploring Gulf State Park’s 28-mile complex pavement and boardwalk bike/pedestrian paths connected to our camp resort.  Hard to photograph a bird going 5-6 mph!

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Gulf State Park, Alabama
28 miles of entwining paths through 7 distinctive ecosystems

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I only carried my wide angle camera on the bike trips.  Stopped one instance to wait for hubby and saw a Rough Green snake in the tree next to me.  This is a heavy crop; I was standing back, way back!

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Rough Green snake (look for neon green ‘rope’)

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I came to a sudden stop when this Ribbon snake was laying across our bike path.

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Ribbon snake

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One other snake seen but no photo.  More than gators to watch out for, huh?!!  😲

And now my ‘things that fly’ photos.  There was an Osprey nearby, loved hearing it call out every day from the air or a tower, warning fly-bys to stay away.

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Osprey chasing below Bald Eagle away

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Immature Bald Eagle staying ahead of the Osprey

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Gulf Fritillary

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Killdeer

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Great Egret

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Osprey at Sunset

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