Mead Gardens, 9/11/2013

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Tufted Titmouse
This morning I met a friend of mine at Mead Gardens.  We a very nice time there, though there weren't many birds to speak of there.  We saw or heard five species of warbler: Ovenbird, American Redstart, Common Yellowthroat, Northern Parula, and a Black and White Warbler.  We also had fun watching a Great Egret preening, a couple Great Blue Herons were in the stream and lake shore.  A Cooper's Hawk also made an appearance by the lake shore, swooping down over a couple White Ibises.

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Great Egret

Since there weren't a lot of birds, we turned our attention to other wildlife.  We saw a couple non-native species, including a Brown Anole and a Red-eared Slider.

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Brown Anole
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Red-eared Slider
But there were also many Eastern Pondhawk dragonflies there, including this beautiful female. And a Rat Snake fell out a tree near us; I have to say, this is probably the prettiest snake I've ever seen.

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Eastern Pondhawk
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Rat Snake

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  1. Nice shots, Scott. I may post some, as well as many taken today at Animal Kingdom, then give subtitles like you do (except with less-informative titles like, "Bird")!

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  2. Thanks! I crouched down to photograph the snake, and it slithered right up to me! It's too bad I didn't have another lens with me.

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  3. Let me know where you post them; I'd love to see them.

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