What’s Up? – Our Vacation… | H.J. Ruiz

What’s Up? – Our Vacation…

Our Vacation…

My family and I went on vacation to Florida. We visited several places, among them: Clearwater Beach, Bradenton Beach and Sarasota, plus some other places that were not on the beach.

My son Tyler loves the beach, so does my wife Lucy. I had promised them we would go to the beach during the week of School recess in Georgia.

Putting it a few words, we enjoyed every minute of our vacation. We were out of our hotels daily after an early breakfast in the morning and stayed out for many hours doing all kinds of things whether at the beach or inland. There are so many interesting places to visit and enjoy.

When it comes to birds… it was kind of early on the Season for any migrations yet. Even places I visited, well known for having good numbers of birds were mostly empty with very few birds on sight.

I decided to find shore birds instead and I had better luck in that respect.

Photo Gallery

Here are a couple of pictures, Tyler posing for me. He loves to investigate everything and ask questions.

WILLET

RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER

GREAT EGRET

Tags: birding, birds, Great Egret, nature, photography, photos of birds, Red-bellied Woodpecker, What's Up?, Willet

12 thoughts on “What’s Up? – Our Vacation…”

shoreacres on October 1, 2018 at 8:42 am said:

For some reason it surprised me to see the woodpecker on the palm tree, but I’m glad you chose to post that photo. I had thought I’d seen a woodpecker on a palm outside my place, but thought, “Surely not.” Now I know that I did, and I’ll watch for them more closely. Glad you had a good time — it’s a great collection of photos. I remember so many vacations with my parents, and I’ll bet Tyler will remember this one with affection!

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- H.J. for avian101 on October 1, 2018 at 5:30 pm said:
  
  In Florida West Side is common to see woodpeckers on palm trees… I’m sure that Tyler had a great time, that’s all he talks about! Thank you very much Linda. 🙂
  
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susanpoozan on October 1, 2018 at 11:28 am said:

Glad your holiday went so well even if there weren’t too many birds to photograph. Tyler looks to be a fine boy.

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- H.J. for avian101 on October 1, 2018 at 5:35 pm said:
  
  It was our holiday, we all had lots of fun, we had great diners, we visited many places with a relaxed spirit and we did enjoy everyone of them! Thank you Susan! 🙂
  
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svtakeiteasy on October 1, 2018 at 5:11 pm said:

Glad you had a nice time and Tyler had fun!

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- H.J. for avian101 on October 1, 2018 at 5:39 pm said:
  
  Thanks a lot Chris! 🙂
  
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Indira on October 1, 2018 at 6:12 pm said:

Good to see you back with lot of memories and pictures! 😀

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- H.J. for avian101 on October 1, 2018 at 9:13 pm said:
  
  Thank you Indira! 🙂
  
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tanjabrittonwriter on October 2, 2018 at 9:59 pm said:

Welcome back, H.J. Glad you and your family had a nice time in Florida.

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- H.J. for avian101 on October 3, 2018 at 1:41 pm said:
  
  Thank you very much Tanja! 🙂
  
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bayphotosbydonna on October 3, 2018 at 9:15 am said:

Welcome back, HJ, I am glad you and your family had a wonderful vacation! Don’t you just love inquisitive kids?!!! 😉 Love the capture with Tyler, water and boats, my kinda shot!!

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- H.J. for avian101 on October 3, 2018 at 1:53 pm said:
  
  Thank you Donna. We usually have fun when vacationing, we explore every venue and make it worth a special day, every day! I like boats so does he. 🙂
  
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