Insect life is so colourful (and big!) there, I had good fun getting shots of butterflies.
I've never seen so many ospreys in my life! If you want to see one of these magnificent birds in England, you have to go into the Lake District and watch tv screen of a nest of one of the very few pairs here, as you cannot know the exact location of the nest because it could be targetted by egg collectors. In Florida, they could be seen sat on the road crash barriers on the way to Sanibel.
This turkey vulture posed nicely whilst we took an airboat ride.
This red-shouldered hawk took us by surprise when he swooped down from a tree and landed about a metre away from us whilst we were walking on a nature trail boardwalk. The pictures I took of him didn't turn out that great, and by the time I got the video camera on him, he flew off. Still, a very beautiful sight.
On the same boardwalk, my brother almost trod on this otter as he was sleeping on the trail! He did hang around long enough for a couple of pics before he slipped back into the water.
When I said, whilst on another nature walk, "Oo, there's a terrapin over there", lots of very confused Americans nearby turned and said, "Well, I can see the turtle, but nothing like what you saw."(In the UK, we tend to call freshwater turtles 'terrapins', or at least I always have. 'Turtles' to us means those in the sea.)
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