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Great Blue Heron Memories From Fort De Soto

By Mia McPherson|August 21st, 2025|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Herons, Pinellas County|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, beach, Belt of Venus, close up, coastal island, earth shadow, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Heron, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, heron, herons, immature, Pinellas County, portrait, ruffled, sand, sandbar, territorial behavior, turtle grass, wading birds, walking, water, young|

It seems a little dreamy, but some of these Great Blue Heron photos taken at Fort De Soto County Park in Florida are almost 20 years old now!

White Morph Reddish Egret in Stormy Light

By Mia McPherson|June 11th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Reddish Egrets|Tags: adult, coastal, dramatic light, egret, egrets, Egretta rufescens, foraging, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, hunting, nonbreeding plumage, Reddish Egret, sandbar, stomy light, storm, stormy, stormy skies, summer, wading birds, water, waves, white morph|

In my two previous posts of a Snowy Egret and a Great Egret I mentioned how the early morning light and a nearby storm gave those images a feeling of drama. These white morph Reddish Egret images were taken that same morning not long after I created the Great Egret photos.

American Herring Gulls

By Mia McPherson|June 2nd, 2012|Categories: American Herring Gulls, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County|Tags: adult, American Herring Gull, beach, breeding plumage, coastal island, flight, flying, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, gull, gulls, immature, Larus smithsonianus, sand, sandbar, water, young|

Two Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) at different stages of life, one an adult in breeding plumage, the other an immature gull in flight.