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Guarding The Next - Beautiful Osprey on guard. Captured on Siesta Key, Florida
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Chilling At Sunset - While enjoying a beautiful sunset on Sarasota Bay, this beautiful Great Blue Heron and two Laughing Gulls paid us a visit.
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Nature's Beauty In Our Backyard - With winter waning, thought I'd post this picture of a Robin that graced us with her presence during the one big snow storm of the year in our area.
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Tranquility At Sunset - Siesta Beach
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Beauty in Flight - Beautiful Hummingbird enjoying nectar from a Mexican Petunia. Captured in good friends' backyard
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Nature's Beauty In Our Backyard - We were honored to get a visit on our patio from this beautiful Barred Owl
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Ah The Sweet Nectar!
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Grand Elk relaxing in an alpine meadow in Rocky Mountain National Park
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The Raven Spirit Animal Surveys His Domain - In the Petrified Forest National Park and the Painted Desert
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Nature's Beauty In My Backyard
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Great White Egret stolling the beach on Siesta Key
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On Top Of The World - Young Elk in Rocky Mountain National Park
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Red-winged Blackbird - captured at Des Peres Park
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Majestic Bald Eagle
Photo captured at the World Bird Sanctuary
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On A Mission
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Focused
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Master
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Majestic Bald Eagle
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Surveying The Horizon - Egret in the Everglades National Park
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Egret In Flight - Everglades National Park
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Tree Snail - Everglades National Park
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The Postman Butterfly captured at the Sophia M Sachs Butterfly House St. Louis
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Grizzly bear and cubs strolling the shore of Lake Sherburne in Glacier National Park
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Royal Terns Basking On Crescent Beach - Siesta Key Florida
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Pod of Pelicans loafing just off Siesta Key Beach
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Bison Roaming Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park
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Bison Roaming Hayden Valley in Yellowstone National Park
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Nature's Beauty In Our Backyard - House Finch
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Nature's Beauty In Our Backyard - Downy Woodpecker
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Surveying The Horizon - Grey Heron in the marshland of Montage Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina
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On The Move - Pelican just off Crescent Beach, Siesta Key, Florida
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Egret On The Beach
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Scavenging Sanderling on Crescent Beach, Siesta Key Florida
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Two predators fishing at Point of Rocks on Siesta Key
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Ready For Liftoff - Egret on Crescent Beach, Siesta Key Florida
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Pelican ready to dive for his prey - just off Crescent Beach, Siesta Key Florida
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Feed Me! Pelican floating off of Crescent Beach on Siesta Key