The American purple gallinule is a swamp hen, a rail. The adult colors are almost peacock like. Their normal habitation is between Buenos Aires and Tallahassee. Of all the rails, this one has the greatest amount of vagrancy; and if not so, i would have never seen. This fellow was fifteen feet away , and in dense vegetation. He was quite furtive, in and out, top and bottom. Entertaining, and many quick poses. My camera does not have a view finder, and the sunlight was coming at me. I could see the subject quite easily, i could not find him in the camera. From seventy shots, i had three that were useful, one was an extended leg with claws. This juvenile had gathered a small throng of admirers in Lorain Impoundment.
Fiberglass snake sculpture North Chagrin Reservation
Photographing a very new nuclear family at Squire's Castle
Great blue heron at North Chagrin Reservation
St. Joseph Lorain extinguished March 2010, still for sale.
And he had a bobbly Jesus in white robe on his dashboard.
These four fotos show some autumn color, yesterday, at Mentor Veterans Park.
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