Got out to Corkscrew Swamp and bird preserve in the South Florida outback yesterday. #nature #naturephotography #birds #sofla

This is a little blue heron in the swamp, though, he's only little compared to the great blue heron.

The purple gallinules, aka the Jewel of the Everglades, were pretty active yesterday. #birds #photography #everglades #sofla #NationalPark

What are you looking at? #birds #photography #NationalPark #Everglades #SoFla

An anhinga next to a water culvert under the road in Everglades National Park. #everglades #photography #birds #SoFla #NationalPark

I had some great interactions, actual interactions, with anhingas in Everglades National Park yesterday. #photography #birds #NationalParks #SoFla

A statue of a rooster in #LittleHavana #MiamiDadeCounty #SoFla. These statues are all over the place. Legend has it the city forced a man to get rid of his beloved pet rooster. So he made a sculpture of it. Everyone wanted a sculpture, so the man made many more sculptures and you can find them all over town. He had to stop making them when the city ordered him to stop. #photography There are chickens, as in living ones, all over the place, from Downtown Miami to the western suburbs by the Everglades. For whatever reason it seems there are fewer around town after the holiday season.

Whether you're in #LittleHavana, #CoralGables, #Westchester, #Doral, #Homestead or #KeyBiscayne, spend an afternoon, especially on a weekend, in Miami Dade County and chances are you'll see a Ferrari. #photography #SoFla

Want to see unique #cars? Come to #Miami. You'll be hard pressed to go a day without seeing something unique and probably stupidly expensive. This old timer runs smooth but is part of a small museum in #LittleHavana #Miami #SoFla #photography

Full of vibrant art #LittleHavana #Miami #Florida is a unique blend of cultures only found here and, well, in #Havana. #Photography #SoFla

If #cigars are your thing #LittleHavana #Miami #Florida does not disappoint. Check out #CalleOcho for some unique hand rolled cigars. #photography #sofla

After three waves of Cuban immigration fleeing from the #Castro regime (and a fourth arriving now), Miami is home to a large section of the vibrant Cuban diaspora. This leads to an unique blend of cultures in Miami. This is most evident in #LittleHavana (this photo is from a Cuban museum on Calle Ocho) but present in every aspect of Miami Dade County. #photography #sofla

Full of misconceptions, myths, exaggerations, scandals and more, the Magic City, #Miami, burst onto the American scene just about 100 hears ago. Founded in 1896, the city is one of the youngest large cities in America. Americans mostly avoided it until the Army and Navy build up of the two world wars created infrastructure and the advent of air conditioning made it habitable. Sometimes. #Miami #SoFla #photography

Technically found in a the City of Miami Beach, a city on an island adjacent to #Miami, #SouthBeach's concentration of #ArtDeco buildings is the largest in the world. A byproduct of the 1927 hurricane that annihilated Miami Beach (it is a barrier island, after all) and preserved after a huge local preservation effort, the Art Deco district has something for everyone. #photography #buildings #SoFla

A pleasant blend of #Miami, Florida and #Havana, #Cuba, #LittleHavana in Miami is home to bright colors, delicious food, live music and chickens. Yes, chickens. Both statues of chickens and actual chickens. #photography #SoFla

A lifeguard house at sunrise on the beach in South Beach, a neighborhood in the City of Miami Beach, which is situated on an island across Biscayne Bay from the City of Miami. That's a lot of words to say, no, LeBron didn't take his talents to South Beach. South Beach is a neighborhood in a neighboring City of Miami. Common misconception, that. And the mayors of Miami Beach and Miami have just about the same pop in this county, which means, they're pretty small compared to the County Mayor. That's right, the county has a mayor. #miami #sofla #photography

Maiz y Agave, a three story tall Mexican Restaurant on the most important intersection in the City of Coral Gables, went all out for Dia de los Muertos in 2024. This photo from November is of the back of the alter to the dead. #Miami #sofla #photography

The lighthouse in Bill Baggs State Park on Key Biscayne in Miami Dade County is the oldest building in the county. The light actually predates the City of Miami by decades. The island key itself was fought over during the Seminole Wars and the location of the light sits where self emancipated formerly enslaved people waited for ships to take them to freedom in places like Haiti. #photography #lighthouse #miami #sofla

A peahen looks suspeciously at the photograher. Miami-Dade County has a few wild herds of peafowl running around. One city decided there were enough of he birds, but they liked what they had, especially when the peacocks were strutting looking for a mate. Solution? Vasectomies. #Miami #sofla #photography

Two gulls hang out by a human made lake in the western part of Miami, near FIU's engineering campus. #photography #sofla #miami

A wood stork near the Homestead/Florida City entrance to Everglades National Park, Florida, USA #Birds #photography #sofla