With IBS in Miami late September, BirdingPI.com staff was mostly ‘stuck’ at Miami Beach. These shots at sunrise. Weather: cloudy, mild/warm, humid, tropical. Ok sequence of a Laughing chasing a Lesser Black-backed Gull (w/ fish): A deft Laughing Gull catch-and-release of ocean detritus: Coming up soon, lots more from the beach!
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El Rio (5)
Today on BirdingPI.com, it’s the final post of a lovely morning at El Rio Preserve in Marana, Arizona, back in August:
A Different Morning
Heading back to outside BIRDS HQ in Casas Adobes, AZ this past mid-August, early morning, featuring a gorgeous male Purple Shooting Star (a.k.a. Costa’s Hummingbird): Also Curve-billed Thrasher: [Editor’s note: after this photo shoot, the litter in question (the aluminum can), resulting from localized flooding in a nearby wash, was safely moved to recycling.]
El Rio (4)
Penultimate content from this particular morning at El Rio Preserve in Marana, AZ, featuring lovely Anna’s Hummingbirds: The little black-blue patch just to the rear of the foreleg (see red arrow) is what gives this lizard its name (“Side-blotched”):
El Rio (3)
Back with more from El Rio Preserve in Marana, AZ, this past August! Here’s a Vermilion Flycatcher partaking of a dragonfly exuvia; exuviae are the cast-off exoskeletons left behind after aquatic dragonfly nymphs complete their final molt into winged adults: Coming up “soon,” “exciting” IBS content from southeast Florida, including butterflies, flowers, dragonflies, plants, alligators, […]
Morning at Pintail (3)
Back to Pintail Lake outside Show Low, Arizona, in August, featuring (unless otherwise noted) White-faced Ibis (non-breeding plumage):
Morning at Pintail (1)
No post yesterday due to delays in the photo editing department, but kicking it into high gear today with the first of several posts @ Pintail Lake (& Allen Severson Memorial Wildlife Area) outside Show Low, Arizona, back in August: Mostly, this area is a flat, high elevation volcanic plane with many, many juniper trees: […]