Contents

Rearview Mirror - Summary of the past week
Headlights - Our schedule as to where we will be heading

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Rearview Mirror

Boat Club
I took my camera to our monthly Boat Club meeting and took a few action shots.







Check out the website for more pics: http://www.pineislandboatclub.com/

Walk-Arounds
Here are a variety of shots taken from my daily strolls.





















Venice Rookery
Jan, the Pups, and I headed out at 5:15 Saturday morning to drive the 70 miles to the Venice Rookery. Here we spent two-and-a-half hours shooting birds and enjoying their nest building. If you like watching birds in action, this is a great place to go this time of year.
http://www.veniceaudubon.org/rookery.html











Myakka River State Park
Next we drove to visit Myakka River State Park in search of spoonbills. We found some, but they were too far away to shoot. Great park, though--we will be back. http://www.myakkariver.org/index.php



Raptor Center
From there we drove to Auntie’s in Apopka, dropped off our bags and the Pups, loaded up Auntie, and headed to the Raptor Center. Along with seeing some of the other birds of prey, we got to see a master falconer fly a pair of Harris Hawks. Great fun!

Headlights

MAA ’12 tentative departure date is set! We are pleased to announce that Motoring Across America 2012 is already in the planning stages and our tentative date of departure is April 13. More to come…

See you next week after a few days at “The Mouse.”

Tags: Pine Island, Bird photography, Myakka River State Park, Venice Rookery, Raptor Center