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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