Florida hodge-podge......

I'm trying to finish off my Florida photos, so I am just jumbling some of them together here in one post.

We saw this hawk sitting on a power line over a busy road and we stopped in the parking lot to take photos.  He didn't even seem to mind that we were watching him.  Don't know what kind, but I would say a juvenile something....Sharp-shinned maybe?

He swooped down and grabbed something off the ground.  We think it is a frog.

Maybe he is a biology student doing his frog dissection for class :-) .....or maybe he is just hungry.

 At a park we went to we saw a group of  Hooded Mergansers swimming along.  Up on the dock there was a fake plaster owl.  We wondered what they were trying to scare away with it.  Curious.

I don't see a lot of Mergansers, so I was happy to see these.

 Twice we saw Herons on top of buildings.  I'm not sure if I would like to have a heron sitting on top of my house or not :-)  This one is on a garage.

On top of a club house for a miniature golf course near the heron rookery.

 These Coots were in a pond in front of a buy shopping area.  Besides the Coots, there were a Grebe, Gulls, and Cormorants in the same pond.  I really can't get over how much the birds ignore people here.

 They look like they are talking to each other :-)

 This Cormorant was "sailing".......he had his wings up and was just letting the wind move him around.  Funny to watch, but very graceful.

These two look like a married couple having an argument about something.....or else he's a flasher.

 The gulls were all common Ring-bills......

 .....but I enjoyed watching them land......

 ....and gather.....

.....and bathe.

Back at our motel, this Collared Dove was trying to make a nest up in the rafters of the porch roof.