Happy New Year! I’m back home and went on the first dog walk of the year. Turned out to be iguana day. Counted over eight in one spot.
An iguanas looks for food on the edge of a canal.
Two iguanas look over the edge of the canal.
Big iguana displays its dewlap.
Big iguana sunning in a mangrove tree.
A Turkey Vulture flies by.
Today’s dog walk was fun and some of our usual friends were out. The Green Heron was searching for bugs to eat. Then Pixel decided we needed to go a couple blocks further than normal, which took us past a neighbor’s yard full of wonderful lush, green plants.
A bee flies near a Bottle Brush tree.
An iguana swims across the tidal canal.
A Green Heron eats a bug.
Two iguanas face off on a branch of a Mangrove tree.
Detail of a cut palm tree trunk
Detail of a palm frond
A Jaguar hood ornament escapes its car cover.
The sun shines through palm fronds.
Orchids blooming
A Cormorant lands in the water while we were at the bridge today.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
Just when I was joking that I had dragged the camera with me and there was nothing to take photos of today. I actually said to my husband, “Please take the leash, maybe there will be a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker” on the tree ahead. Surprise there was! Turns out that it wasn’t such a bad outing after all.
A female Yellow-bellied Sapsucker looks for dinner.
A Cormorant looks for dinner.
A Green Heron perches on a mangrove tree.
Air plants hanging in a tree.
A male Cardinal
A cracked coconut on a rock
Well, it is Thanksgiving in South Florida.
We didn’t get very far on our dog walk on Monday. First we found the squirrel on the pole in our driveway.
But then …
We looked up …
And there was an Osprey … on the pole … in the yard behind our house … with a still flopping Crevalle Jack in its talons!
The dogs were whisked back inside and the next hour was spent watching amazing scenes of nature, practically in our own backyard! No worries though. The dogs got their walk afterwards.
