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Photo Diary: This Week's Batch of Florida Critters

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by Lenny Flank for Shutterbugs

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Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020 Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020 at 6:31:09am PDT

Some of the critters I have encountered lately during my daily walks in St Pete.

Banded Water Snake—I think this is an individual with an amelanistic mutation

“Hi there, human.” Eastern Lubber Grasshopper.

Tri-Color Heron

A big gator paddling across the lake

Air Potato Beetle making swiss cheese of this invasive Air Potato plant

Remains of a Plecostomus catfish that something had for lunch. It’s a non-native aquarium fish.

Apple Snail egg mass on an aquatic plant stem. Another aquarium escapee.

Anhinga diving for fish

Yellow-Bellied Slider

Pickerelweed. The Fritilary photobombed me as I was taking the shot.

Water Lily

Yellow-Crowned Night Heron catches some lunch

Osprey with his lunch

A Limpkin with his

And Mom Moorhen shares lunch with Junior