He has a “Pinocchio” nose doesn’t he? We found this bird sitting on a clump with reeds growing up behind him and it was hard to distinguish the bird from the background. I had to wait until he decided to swim around.
Black Point Drive, part of the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
We got the first of two vaccination shots yesterday. We have been registered with the DOH FL and been receiving notifications telling us where shots were available in Lake county on a first come first serve basis. Jan. 11th we received a notification that scheduled appointments were available. As fast as I could make my fingers go I signed us both up and got appointments for Jan 12 at 4:20 and 4:40 pm. We expected a drive through situation. Nope. We had to wait in line outdoors (it was quite chilly) and were taken by appointment time. The process went smoothly and took about an hour and a half start to finish. Obviously some issues like what if you can’t stand a long time or what if it was raining? This was the first day of appointments so they have some fine tuning to do. We got the Moderna vaccine with our second dose to follow on Feb 10. They gave us a card with the vaccine info in it and instructions to bring the card to the second dose. It was suggested we get it laminated after that.
We are looking forward to heading north in our travel camper and visiting loved ones we haven’t seen in a year or more.
Some previously shown photos in a new perspective. Enjoy !
Red Shouldered Hawk
Osprey
Seagull
Pipevine Swallowtail
Purple Gallinule 
Great Egret
Lol, love these opal pieces from Vic.
Vic in one of his 5 Christmas shirts
Here’s my Great White Egret flying over the water at Lake Apopka last week. The green at the eye is breeding plumage.
This is Vic fishing yesterday (catch and release) here at the campground. He caught 24.
This is me and Zoe doing our Christmas selfie.
Woke up to cool temps 64 this am. Hurray!!!! It’s been a long hot summer. On July 2 Vic fell down the steps right outside our camper and tore the tendons on his left knee. He’s been recovering from that ever since. He’s pretty much good to go now and soon we will be back to our birding adventures. Stay tuned for some bird photos 😊. Here’s a recent photo of Zoe, our Shih Tzu.
We were lucky enough to find Capt. Mike and took a 3 hour private boat tour off Marco Island in an area called Ten Thousand Islands. We asked for an emphasis on birding. Usually he does shelling tours and dolphin/manatee sightings but he did know a lot about birds. We enjoyed his company and I would love to go out again. We saw magnificent frigate, skimmers, shore birds and much more.
Capt Mike, Green Water Boat Tours
Skimmers
Magnificent Frigate
Godwit Terns.
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