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Florida 2014

14 March 2014

Starting with snow at DTW to FLA

...with a nice layer of clouds...

to beautiful skies above Florida

Our rental: a Volkswagen Jetta. As an European we chose for an European car

Walking along the boardwalks at Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge

Brown anole

Lots of Old Man

Brown anole in territorial display

Red-bellied woodpecker (roodbuikspecht)

Gray catbird (katvogel)

Tricolored heron (witbuikreiger)

Common gallinule (Amerikaanse waterhoen)

Limpkin (koerlan)

Gulf fritillary (Agraulis vanillae)

Little blue heron (kleine blauwe reiger)

Cattle egret (koereiger)

Great blue heron (grote blauwe reiger)

Cattle egret in flight

At Loxahatchee a number of acres is dedicated for research for getting the Everglades back to what it was. They experiment for example with salinity and water levels to see what attracks plants and wildlife.

Glossy ibis (zwarte ibis)

Glossy ibis and snowy egret (kleine zilverreiger)

Boat-tailed grackle (bootstaarttroepiaal)

Anhinga (slangenhalsvogel)

Great egret (grote zilverreiger)

Female red-winged blackbird (epauletspreeuw)

The first alligator we saw from the observation tower

Overlooking one of the experiments at Loxahatchee

Young eastern lubber grasshopper (regenboogsprinkhaan) highway. No wings yet, so they have to walk/jump.

Limpkin

Blue-winged teals (blauwvleugeltaling) and probably an American coot in the middle at the back

Blue-winged teals, green-winged teals (Amerikaanse wintertaling) (male and female)

American alligator. This must be either little or big George. As it was rather small I think it

World

Boat-tailed grackle showing it

After Loxahatchee we drove north over the A1A towards Palm Beach. Some unbelievably large houses and very expensive boats.

At Gator Park we took an airboat ride through the marshes

A cockatoo (kaketoe) making a lot of noice

Very difficult to spot amongst the tall grass but we managed to find several gators, turtles and fish.

A great blue heron posing for a good shot

Great egret scared away by the noice of the airboat

Inside the leafs of these water lilies live small worms...

...like this one. They are excellent bait because they wiggle about when they swim from leaf to leaf.

Young alligator on the loose!

Scorpion

Nice big toad

Do you wanna play?

Alligator wrestling

Aw, so cute!

Fishies

Oops, wrong turn

Warming up in the sun right next to the road

Immer gerade aus

Anhinga

Double-crested cormorant (geoorde aalscholver) goes fishing

At the visitor center a few miles east we asked if manatees had been spotted and indeed they were. Well, there was one spotted at Big Cypress Swamp Welcome Center.

Turkey vulture (kalkoengier)

Hello halo

Enjoying the view before a boat ride to the 10,000 islands at Everglades City

Brown pelican (bruine pelikaan)

There are actually between ten and sixteen thousand island depending on the water level. Even one solitary tree counts as an island. The islands consist of three types of mangrove trees: red, white and black.

Mama osprey (visarend) sitting on her nest

and daddy not far away on a tree on the shore

Bottlenose dolphins (tuimelaars)

Captain Nick hoped that if we got some more speed the dolphins would follow us and jump and play in the wake of the boat and did they! Wow!

Royal tern (koningsstern)

Living wind vanes because they always stand directly into the wind.

Looking east...

...south...

...west...

...and north.

Mangrove crabs

I could almost touch the pelican

Erm, that doesn

Flamingo Gardens, Davie, FL

Flamingos at the garden

White ibises

Bobcat (rode lynx)

North American river otter

American crocodile

Sandhill cranes (Canadese kraanvogel) and a domestic goose

Domestic goose, sandhill cranes, white ibis and a mute swan (knobbelzwaan)

Little green heron (groene reiger)

Peacock (pauw)

Swan goose (zwaangans)

Get a room!

The grass is always greener at the other side

Golden silk orb-weaver (gouden zijdespin)

Kestrel (torenvalk)

Northern harrier (blauwe kiekendief)

Crested caracara

Red-tailed hawk (roodstaartbuizerd)

Burrowing owl (holenuil)

Eastern screech owl (oostelijke schreeuwuil)

Barred owl (gestreepte bosuil)

Kestrel

Screech owl

Missing one eye because some youth thought it was fun to shoot at it with a BB gun

Double crested comorant

Wood duck (Carolina-eend)

Fulvous whistling-duck (rosse fluiteend)

Wood stork (kaalkopooievaar)

Roseate spoonbill (rode lepelaar)

White pelican

Male white pelican

Ibises, spoonbills and even peacocks ate out of your hand.

Male and female lesser scaups (kleine topper)

Eastern gray squirrel and American crow

Black-crowned night heron (kwak)

Ferruginous hawk (rosse ruigpootbuizerd)

Red-shouldered hawk (roodschouderbuizerd)

Harris hawk (woestijnbuizerd)

Blue jay (blauwe gaai)

Florida panther

Bald eagle (Amerikaanse zeearend)

Golden eagle (steenarend)

Feeding fish at Miami Seaquarium

Manatee

Dolphin show

Black-crowned night heron looking to steel some fish

American crocodile

Scarlet macaw (geelvleugelara)

Our first, and quite big, thunderstorm

Immediate flooding

Atlantic ocean as seen from the Florida Keys

Boardwalk through Long Key State Park

Mangrove roots create quite the labyrinth

Mangrove tree roots

Dolphin show at Theater of the Sea, Islamorada, FL

Sea lion show

Smile!

Oops, shame on me for eating the fish (previous photo)

Patagonian mara (Patagonische haas)

Back from FLA to DTW to AMS

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