Secret Lake Park, 7/10/2013

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Florida Red Belly Turtle
Yesterday afternoon I dropped by Secret Lake Park for a few minutes to check on breeding birds.  The last time I was here the place was hopping with activity, and I was able to log breeding evidence for Brown Thrashers, Common Grackles, Osprey, and Common Gallinules.  Yesterday was much quieter, though the begging Ospreys and Common Grackles were still making a racket.  It was fun to find other types of animals, though.  A Florida Redbelly Turtle posed for me, as did a couple species of dragonfly.  I don't know my dragonflies well at all.  I'm pretty sure one was a male Eastern Pondhawk; the other I was unable to identify, but the great people at BugGuide.net identified it as a Slaty Skimmer.

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Eastern Pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis)
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Slaty Skimmer (Libellula incesta)
Ospreys are there in abundance.  I confess I get pretty tired of photographing them, and often I just ignore them, but it was a slow birding day, and this one I thought looked kind of interesting in flight, so I thought it would be good to add a couple photos of them.

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Osprey
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Osprey

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