It has been too long since I’ve posted photos. Life just gets in the way sometimes, I guess. I have photos from the Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, the Six Mile Cypress Slough in Fort Myers, the area of the bay between Sanibel Island and Useppa Island, and also a few photos from around our home.

There’s no other way than to just dig in and start posting them. (There are over 60 photos here, so I’ll understand if you fall asleep before you finish!) The early May morning when we walked through the Wakodahatchee Wetlands, the sun was extremely bright and harsh, which is not ideal for photos. There were hundreds of Wood Storks in the trees. It was pretty amazing to see!

So many trees full of Wood Storks!

The baby Wood Storks are a bit cuter than the adults!!

There weren’t just Wood Storks, even though they seemed to make up the majority. I think the next one is a juvenile Glossy Ibis.

I believe this is a juvenile Tri-colored Heron

The next two photos are of a Purple Gallinule chick. I couldn’t get a photo of the adult, but they are really pretty. The chicks are just black at this age.

Those feet!!!

A Black-bellied Whistling Duck is tucked in for a morning nap.

I love the pink legs on the Black-necked Stilt

Great Blue Heron chicks!

Tri-colored Heron juveniles

Wood Stork Yoga

Cattle Egret fresh from the beauty salon

Juvenile Great Egrets

Now, a quick walk through the Six Mile Cypress Slough. At the entrance, our squirrel guide gave us a quick description of what we would see.

This is the first Wood Duck I’ve been able to photograph. They are so pretty. Well, as usual, the male is colorful and the female, not so much.

Another bird that I’ve never gotten a photo of is a Limpkin. I was excited to see this one.

It’s always cool to see a Black-crowned Night Heron. We actually saw three sitting in the trees near nests.

It’s always nice to end the walk with an Anhinga

In June, I went with some girlfriends on the Lady Chadwick with Captiva Cruises, over to Useppa Island. We left from Captiva Island and went along the bay to Useppa. We had a really nice lunch at the Collier Inn on Useppa Island and then headed back home.

We were treated to the dolphins playing in the boat’s wake along the way. They seem to have such fun playing in the boat’s wake.

I think this is my favorite of the dolphin photos. It seemed to be looking straight up at me and posing for the camera.

I love the looks you can get from an Osprey. This could be captioned a lot of ways!

This is a much photographed strangler fig, aka Banyon Tree, on Useppa Island. As their limbs and roots grow, the trees “walk”, spreading further out from the base.

Hang in . . . just a few more of wildlife around our home in Fort Myers.

I’d never seen this many Cattle Egret in one place around our homes.

Spider webs are always fun to photograph. This was a large one near our front window.

The video below was taken early one morning from inside our home. Seeing three deer prancing around next to our lanai was so cool.