Crops & Clips: Summer is here

It has been a busy week but Mary Lou and I have gotten out into the Wounded Wetlands before sunrise almost every morning. Summer season has really set in, with calm humid mornings, gathering clouds and afternoon rain. Sunrise sometimes can look as if the world has been set afire:

Looking east at sunrise minus 25 minutes, as we walk into our local patch:



Five minutes later and we are deeper into the wetlands:



Over the ocean, a distant thunderhead belches "Dragon Breath:"





The sky lightens up, 15 minutes before sunrise:



To the southwest, opposite the rising sun, mirrored rays extend to the far horizon:



Sun brightens the cloud tops north of the lake:



No breeze mars the water's surface:



A "Piebald" immature Little Blue Heron forages methodically:



It is molting from the white coat it has worn for a year, into the dark blue of an adult:





A successful strike:



By midsummer it will resemble the parents:



An immature Green Heron takes flight:







A Great Egret balances on limber treetop branches:



High water in the Everglades drives the deer to higher ground. This White-tailed doe did not catch my scent in the still air. She walked right past me:






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