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A brave Mom defending her babies.
It was drizzling on and off in early February when I first caught a glimpse of the baby great horned owls at Fort Desoto. The two babies huddled together and Mom stayed with them on the nest when I...
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Cuteness overload
A few days earlier I noticed two little squirrels hanging out of a hole in a tree near the owl’s nest. When I came back to check on the owls, I saw 4 squirrel babies hanging out of the nest. They were...
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Spring is here
Trying to get a shot of an inchworm hanging from a tree is like trying to bite an apple hanging from a tree with your hands tied behind your back (I remember doing this as a kid at Halloween parties)....
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Bok Tower Gardens
Even though chipping sparrows are not rare, I don’t see them often. I found a female ruby throated hummingbird feeding in the english garden at Bok Tower Gardens in late February. It almost looks like...
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Guess what’s for breakfast
Mom was digging around in the nest early one morning in February and pulled up a rat. I’m going to be repetitive about using rat poison. Owls love rats. When people use rat poison the rats don’t die...
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It just keeps getting worse.
More from the great horned owl’s nest. These were all taken in late February, before we lost one of the babies to rat poison. These were the only pictures I got of all 3 of the babies together. They...
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Critter transports in mid-September
More rescue transports for the Raptor Center of Tampa Bay. These are from the middle of September into October. I got a text in the middle of September that a baby squirrel needed a ride from an...
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Ending the year and starting another with injured birds
Look at that beautiful face! This poor barred owl had been shot but was making a quick recovery. In late October I picked him up at the Raptor Center of Tampa Bay in Brandon and drove him down to a...
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Tiny baby owl and sunset
It was the middle of January and it was blasting windy and cold but I still made it down to Fort Desoto to see the new baby great horned owls. They had nested right on the top of a dead palm tree....
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My first eagle passenger
An early morning transport had me driving an injured red shoulder hawk and a black vulture from the Raptor Center in Brandon to Penny, the rehabber, in south St. Pete. I didn’t get a picture of the...
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