GF4Birds

Amateur bird (and sometimes other creatures) photographer in south central Florida! All pictures are my own unless noted otherwise.

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Hello Birding friends. Just getting started into the world of Birding here in south central Florida. Have a camera on the way so that I can start documenting the cool birds I get to see and sharing them out on social medias.

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Checkout this immature Red-Bellied Woodpecker foraging in a tree! Pretty neat to see the young ones!

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Adding another Checklist bird today with the Prairie Warbler!

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When I first got pics of this bird, I thought it was a Northern Parula. Then I got to the computer to edit, and realized it was a Yellow-Throated Warbler, a checklist bird!

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CHEEP! CHEEP! The noisiness of Cardinals always makes them easy to find!

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It's hard getting these kind of shots, but I got a couple of crisp pictures of this flock of Cattle Egrets taking off to find a new place to hand out.

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It's silly looking at Green Herons, how they scrunch up their neck, and then extend it. They're neat creatures.

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Absolutely love these pictures I got of a Yellow-Crowned Night Heron amongst the mangroves. #waterbirdwednesday

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I found this Great Egret hanging out near a group of 15 or 20 Cattle Egret on the side of a retention pond.

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The Osprey stands watch, high in a tree that allows it to view the intercoastal waterway before it.

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One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong. Can you see what it is?

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Some Black-Bellied Whistling Ducks just relaxing in the shade on a hot Florida days.

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The Red-Bellied Woodpeckers were out in force last weekend at the park.

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The Downy Woodpecker is a very small woodpecker. They also don't like to sit still which makes photographing them hard sometimes.

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This Cardinal seemed to be having a screaming competition with someone. Who that was? I don't know, but he sure was winning.

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I had to peek through a couple branches to check out this immature Cardinal!

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opportunities to get out. Just saw a local meteorologist say that this July is likely to go down as the hottest July in records for us. I'm ready to get into a little more tolerable weather...

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Weather hasn't been very cooperative for me to get out and take pictures down here in Florida. I'm not a morning person, so hard for me to get out early before the heat comes up, so it's usually evenings for me. But even then, it's still been hot or raining, cutting down on my

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I saw this Brown Thrasher climbing around, working on it's nest. Then it came down to pose for some pictures for me!

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Who is that? Is someone calling me? Is mom telling me the streetlights are on and it's time to go home?

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Finishing up our #WaterbirdWednesday with a Tri-Colored Heron! Love catching them when they've caught something!

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