Location Report: Big Cypress in the rain

It seems we get a lot of rain in Florida. Usually, it's the type of rain that just dumps out of the sky for a few minutes and then passes, but occasionally we get a day that's just grey and wet for hours and refuses to let up. Kind of like Scotland except, you know, warm.

A little blue heron in adult plumage

A very goofy looking little blue heron in juvenile plumage.

I believe this is a male red-bellied woodpecker

A blue night heron in juvenile plumage on a Cypress tree

Still, I've always really liked rainy days for taking wildlife photos. The colours are often richer, the days aren't so dazzlingly bright or suffocatingly hot, and the animals often display slightly different behaviours than you see in during the heat of the day.

A black vulture

A Florida mockingbird (the state bird)

I'm not sure what this is, other than a little brown bird. Maybe some kind of warbler?

These photos are from all the way back in January, and mark the first in a series of batches I'll be posting now I've had some free time to clear a bit of my backlog! I hope you enjoy them.