{"id":781,"date":"2015-03-11T20:46:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T01:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2020-12-30T16:40:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T21:40:27","slug":"space-coast-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Space coast 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

I \u00a0was back in Florida again this year and, as always, tried my hand at shooting pelicans in flight…I am pretty happy with the results!<\/p>\n

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Even if the temperature was on the cool side, I had the BEST day!<\/p>\n

First of all I managed to find my way to the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge without getting lost!!! (Without my GPS because wildlife refuges do not have an address it seems)<\/p>\n

CHECK!<\/p>\n

Then, I was able to join a guided birding tour! (I had been told there was no room but some poor women arrived late so I got their seat! They caught up with us later and followed in their car but could not hear the comments and explanations from our guide which I did!)<\/div>\n
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CHECK!<\/div>\n
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I was able to take pictures of several species!<\/div>\n
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CHECK!<\/div>\n
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Here are what I think are: a stork, an anhinga drying its feathers, \u00a0a white egret<\/div>\n
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\"Fla4\"<\/a> \"Fla5\"<\/a> \"Fla6\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here I am not as certain, but this might be a juvenile tricoloured heron, or some more exotic creature whose name I forgot,as I did for the second. The third would be a Heron.<\/p>\n

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And these two colourfuls are a roseate spoonbill and a blue heron<\/p>\n

\"Fla11\"<\/a> \"Fla12\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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