November 25th, 2024

I have no idea what Joy and I were looking at  in this photo but we seem to be deeply interested in whatever it was. hah!

This will be a short post, just FYI.

​Last week, we bundled up a bit and headed out hoping for a few good photos!  Sooo yup, another Photo Safari Report.   I will call this one the No Botannicals hike because truly there were not, which is unusual.  Actually as it was very breezy and chilly, we really didn't see much by way of birds either.  There was one very brave (or stupid) butterfly that was so buffeted by the wind that he couldn't get a grip on anything and was just tumbling through the air.  Poor thing.  But it was still a good time,  as always.

We headed to Lemon Bay Preserve once again, hoping that we would finally see the eagles that we kept hearing about.  The trail near the nest is of course closed so they aren't unduly disturbed but it's such a wet mucky trail anyway, that I cannot imagine too many people even trying.

I'll share what I got though it wasn't really impressive.   To our surprise, from a distance we did finally see one of the eagles who was perched near the new nest. He or she was just barely peeking over a pine branch heavy will sprills.  They are unmistakeable! 

One of my favourites was a family (or perhaps families?) of Ibis in the water of a creek. 

Saw a giant woodstork in a tree glaring at us.  How dare we??  (not sure exactly what it is that we did but we did promise to never do it again!)

I did capture a small variety of other birds as well. Honestly not too many.  Some still at Lemon Bay and a few others at the Rookery which we stopped by on the way back.

As this is Thanksgiving week and therefore kind of a strange and busy week, we will not be hiking so there will be no Photo Safari Report for a little bit. But I will be writing about other things for sure!  

Hope you enjoyed the No Botanicals Hike and please stay tuned.  Who knows what I may write about tomorrow??