Thursday, January 10, 2013

Flight time

Lift-off

Coming in for a landing

Oops!!
ORMOND BEACH, FL - - Our first 2013 trip to Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge offered us plenty of roseate spoonbill action.  The 'bills and their cousin the ibis were working hard at finding lunch in a coastal swamp alongside Bio Lab Road.  We spent the first 2-miles of the 3+ mile drive watching the frequent activity of osprey and great blue heron.  Then, we hit a marshy area and a large group of 'bills, ibis, wood storks and a few egret sucking up mud bugs and whatever else tastes good.  All was well until a noise spooked the group and madcap flight ensued.

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