Two things this week:
1. Happy Holidays
Hello readers and season’s greetings to each of you! I hope everyone can visit with family and friends and enjoy this wonderful time of year. Here’s a photo of the tree near the main entrance to our building. I think it looks marvelous!
Happy Holidays 2024!2. Visit to Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
I also wanted to share some photos from my last trip to MINWR (13 December). Winter is a good time to visit and the activity over there has started to pick up. Here are a few samples of the things I saw, first a landscape:
(from Veterans Memorial Park)
And here’s some of the wildlife I spotted:
Wetland Phoebe
Snowy Egrets on a Mission
Chilly Redish Egret
Young Roseate Spoonbill
Northern Shoveler
Wet Wings (a typical Cormorant pose)
Hooded Mergansers
Lurking Gator
Feral HogThanks to everyone for stopping by my blog. Stay positive, be kind, and take care of yourselves and each other. Enjoy your time with family and friends. Make some memories (with photos!).
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Great pictures and full disclosure f holiday cheer! Thank you!
Thanks Dorothy – happy holidays!!!
Beautiful images.. thanks for sharing… Have a great holiday season
Thank you Jean! Wishing you a great holiday season too!
Great shots Ed..keep up the good work and Merry Christmas!!
Thank you Alice – Merry Christmas to you too!
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Thanks Kathryn – Hope you have a wonderful holiday!
I love that young Spoonbill. I am going to be on the lookout for those when we drive over to the Gulf soon. You take amazing photos! I take a lot…not all that great but I sure enjoy looking back at them. Happy New Year!
Thank you Diane.
Your blog and photos are wonderful too – I always look forward to seeing them posted!
Ed
Ed, I love the early morning view of the causeway landscape photo from your trip to Merritt Island NWR. Those clouds sure do pack a punch and feels like the picture draws you in! I also adore how you captured the young Roseate Spoonbill. Such a fun and dynamic moment!
Thank you Laura. I seem to have good luck with the clouds there. I think it has something to do with the close shoreline / ocean.
That was my first Spoonbill of the year. I hope to see many more!
Happy New Year, Ed!
Lovely photographs. Looking forward to returning to the outdoors after Santa brought both my wife and I heart surgeries for Christmas. Not the holiday season we had planned.
Take care. See you out there.