Great Blue In Celebration, No. 2

Great Blue In Celebration, No. 1

Super Shot Sky Watch

Bull Ride

Big Blue At The Lighthouse

This is the first time I've seen a Great Blue Heron sitting on this pole. I had to shoot him.

My Sky This Week

1) A Wood Stork looking down on Lake Toho, Kissimmee, Florida.
2) Hot air balloons floating of the golf course in Champions Gate, Florida.
3) The sky reflected in a pond by the golf course in Celebration, Florida.
4) A Celebration Hotel tower pushing the clouds away in Celebration, Florida.

Gator

A gator cruises along the shoreline of Lake Toho, July 9, 2008.

Across The Lake

There was nothing wrong with this photo of a Celebration neighborhood, I just wanted to see how it would look as a watercolor.

Breakfast At The Pier

A Wood Stork feasts on bait fish that was thrown to him by one of the fishermen on Big Toho Pier, Lake Toho, Kissimmee, Florida. [Click It To Big It]

A Wood Stork Stance

A Great White Watercolor

I shot this earlier today, trying to catch the Great White Heron in flight, but it came out a little blurry. I hate to lose a photo for any reason, so I attempted this watercolor. What do you think?

Anhinga And The Rat

I came across this Anhinga sitting on the edge of the boat ramp, and as I went to shoot him/her I noticed it struggling with something attached to it's beak. I took twenty shots of the bird, edging closer and closer to it, once I realized it was the carcass of a rat that was wrapped around the tip of it's beak. I wanted to find some way to help the bird, but when I got within a couple of feet it turned it's back on me and flew off to a pole out in the lake, with the rat still dangling from it's beak. [Click the photos for a bigger view and a good look at the profile of the rat.]


Please scroll down if you came for the Sky Watch.

Big Blue Sky Watch

Threatened

A Wood Stork gets fed up with my picture taking, and ...



strolls from the grass to the sidewalk, turns and faces me ...



and launches his big threat!



Seeing that I was unimpressed (not scared), he decided to fold his wings and jump into the lake. LOL