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Boat-tailed Grackle (<i>Quiscalus major</i>), male
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Boat-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus major), male

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  • Boat-tailed Grackle (<i>Quiscalus major</i>), male
  • Boat-tailed Grackle (<i>Quiscalus major</i>), male
  • Barred Owl (<i>Strix varia</i>) in a cypress dome in Everglades National Park, Florida.
  • Marbled Godwit on Florida Bay
  • Cattle Egret (<i>Bubulcus ibis</i>)
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Florida
July 2013
  • Cattle Egret (<i>Bubulcus ibis</i>)
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Florida
July 2013
  • Reddish Egret hunting the tidal mud flats of Florida Bay
  • Green Heron (<i>Butorides virescens</i>)
  • Not awkward at all...
Green Heron (<i>Butorides virescens</i>)
  • White Ibis (<i>Eudocimus albus</i>) in the late afternoon
Anhinga Trail, Everglades National Park, Florida
  • White Ibis (<i>Eudicimus albus</i>) eating a crayfish
Everglades National Park, Florida
  • Red-shouldered Hawk (<i>Buteo lineatus</i>)
  • Red-shouldered Hawk (<i>Buteo lineatus</i>)
  • Vermilion Flycatcher
  • Short-tailed Hawk (<i>Buteo brachyurus</i>)
Light phase, soaring
  • This American Alligator (<i>Alligator mississippiensis</i>) was seen eating a hawk (probably a Red-shouldered Hawk) along the bank of a waterway in Everglades National Park, Florida.
  • A Barred Owl (<i>Strix varia</i>) standing sentinel along the road in Everglades National Park
  • "Common as catbirds, as beautiful as ever"

The finest perk of working in the Everglades all day everyday is the myriad opportunities that are presented to me. Somethings are everyday, but everyday they are a bit different. I shot this Osprey (<i>Pandion haliaetus</i>) from my kayak as it swooped low to brag to me about its most recent catch.
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  • Roseate Spoonbill at Sunset<br />
Everglades National Park, Florida
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