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- - - - - Lakefront Park (Lake Tohopekaliga) - Kissimmee, Florida - November 26, 2008 - - - - -

Muscovy duck family
[Five birds paddling away from the camera creating wakes in the water.]

Sidewalk beside the lake
[A straight-on view of the sidewalk with the lake to the right. There are a number of palm trees equally spaced along side the sidewalk on the right side until the sidewalk gets closer to the lake. The trees are equally spaced on the left side of the sidewalk at that point.]

Palm tree fruits
[Not sure if these are a type of nut or date, but they are yellow and grouped in bunch of several dozens hanging from the underside of the palm fronds.]

- - - - - Lakefront Park - April 27, 2009 - - - - -

Great blue heron
[A large bluebird standing in water.]

Great blue heron shaking the fish.
[Bird with a small fish between its bills and the fish seems to still be squirming.]

Muscovy duck
[Bird standing on one leg on something in the water.]

Muscovy duck family
[Mother and three ducklings walking in a row on grass.]

Another Muscovy duck
[Straight down view of duck with teal feathers turning in water.]

Female anhginga drying her feathers.
[Duck on rock with wings open.]

Grackle
[All black bird perched on a sagging chain.]

- - - - - Lakefront Park - December 23, 2011 - - - - -

Lake Toho
[Five different birds, including a large all white one, in a leafless tree in the middle of the growth in the lake.]

Five birds in this tree
[Five different birds, including a large all white one, in a leafless tree in the middle of the growth in the lake.]

White ibis
[White ibis standing on the sidewalk with its head turned back toward its body.]

Tricolored heron
[Dark blue bird with long light green stick-like legs standing at the edge of the sidewalk looking into the weeds.]

Male anhinga drying its feathers but has its tail in the water.
[The bird is perched on flotation rail with its wings spread. The end of its long thin tail is in the lake.]

Grebe: Now you see it; now you don't.
[Two images side by side of a grebe in Lake Toho. On the left the grebe swims atop the water and on the right it dove below the water and all one sees are bubbles and a water swirl.]

Underside of a palm tree
[Looking up at what is under the palms fronds near the uppermost part of the trunk of a palm tree.]

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