2024 was a relatively slow year. Too few ducks flew south until December. The Summer through late Fall was brutally hot. Never the less there were a few keepers. Hopefully there is something here for everyone to enjoy.
(All photos shot at the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge unless otherwise noted)
JANUARY
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Sunset East River Pool
Otter
Otter
Blue-winged Teal (hen)
Gadwall (hen)
Red-breasted Merganser
Horned Grebe
Common Gallinule (moorhen)
Bufflehead (drake and hen)
Bufflehead (drake and hens)
Great Blue Heron
Palm Warbler
FEBRUARY
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Sunrise Stoney Bayou
Moonset
Last Light at the Boat Ramp
Red-shouldered Hawk (immature)
Lesser Scaup (drake and hen)
Blue-winged Teal (drake)
Redhead (hen)
Eastern Phoebe
Anhinga (female)
"Brotherly Love" (baby gators.)
MARCH
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Magnolia Trail (Maclay Gardens)
Bald Eagle
American Kestrel
Tricolored Egret (breeding plumage)
Great Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
While Ibis (immature)
Willet
Northern Parula
APRIL
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Flowering Bulrush
Sunrise
American Alligator
Red-winged Blackbird (male)
Willet
"Golden Slippers" (Snowy Egret)
Northern Cardinal (male, Birdsong)
Northern Cardinal (female, Birdsong
Cedar Waxwing (Birdsong))
Spicebush Swallowtail (Birdsong)
Cottontail (Birdsong)
MAY
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Roseate Spoonbill
Double-crested Cormorant (male)
Brown Pelican
Royal Tern
Sandwich Terns (Bald Point State Park)
Semi-palmated Plover
Marbled Godwit (Bald Point State Park)
Sanderling (Bald Point State Park)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Birdsong)
Summer Tanager (Birdsong)
JUNE
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Sunrise Stoney Bayou
Red-winged Blackbird
Green Heron
Reddish Egret
Roseate Spoonbill
Anhinga (female, Wakulla Springs)
Double-crested Cormorant (male, Wakulla Springs)
Double-crested Cormorant (immature, Wakulla Springs)
Little Blue Heron (Wakulla Springs)
Cattle Egret (Wakulla Springs)
JULY
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Sunrise Stoney Bayou
Osprey
Great Egret
Black Skimmer
Greater Yellow Legs
"Flight of Cormorants" (Wakulla Springs)
Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Wakulla Springs)
Yellow-crowned Night Heron (juvenile, Wakulla Springs)
"Shell Station" (Wakulla Springs)
AUGUST
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Roseate Spoonbill
Osprey
Green Heron
OCTOBER
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Mixed Egrets
Mixed Egrets
NOVEMBER
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Sunrise North of the Lighthouse
Sunrise at the Covered Bench
"Family Time" (Otter)
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron (juvenile)
Double-crested Cormorant
Palm Warbler
"Float Like a Butterfly, Sting like a..." (Belted Kingfisher)
Mixed Ducks
DECEMBER
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Incoming at East River Pool (Snow Geese)
Sunrise Reflection at East River Pool (Snowy Egret)
Sushi Bar at East River Pool
American Wigeon (drake)
Redhead (drake)
Scaup (drake)
Canvasback (drake)
Northern Shoveler (drake and hen)
Bufflehead (hen)
Little Rudy (Ruddy Duck)
"Gone Fishin I" (Great Blue Heron)
"Gone Fishin II" (Great Egret)
Willet
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