Myakka (19-03-2011)

Myakka River State Park.

Break of day, new chances...new dose of luck!

Quite challenging getting close to the birds...but not impossible.

Roseatte Spoonbill.

Black Vulture in the golden hour, before luck changed.

Gator minutes before sunset.

Full moon and closest it has been to Earth for the past 18 years...

Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon's orbit. It is an ellipse with one side (perigee) about 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other (apogee). Nearby perigee moons are about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser moons that occur on the apogee side of the Moon's orbit.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16mar_supermoon/