Nature Photography At Circle B Bar Reserve

Last week the weather went cold and rainy around here for a couple of days. Fortunately, it cleared up at the end of the week and I could make a visit to one of my favorite spots for nature photography in central Florida. It's called the Circle B Bar Reserve.

The Circle B Bar Reserve is an area of protected lands in Polk County, Florida that sits on 1,267 acres. The area is managed by Polk County and is free to the public. It once was a cattle ranch and that is where the name originated.

Today, you can find a wide variety of wading birds like great blue herons, white egrets, tri-colored herons and so forth, as well as all kinds of other bird species. On any given day you may see alligators, raccoons, bobcats, anhingas, cormorants, snakes, eagles, ospreys, and almost any other wild animal indigenous to Central Florida.

One of the things that makes Circle B Bar Reserve so much fun is you never know what you are going to find, because it varies from day to day. I have been there on one week and gotten shots of turtles, raccoons and ospreys, and then the next week it's eagles, great blue herons and painted buntings.

So last week I ventured out to Circle B Bar Reserve again and here are some of the birds I found:

Tri-Colored Heron

Common Gallinule In The Marsh

Anhinga In The Sun

Anhinga Drying His Wings

Tip - this time of year the foliage is pretty brown and dried-out so you have to be very conscious of the background to get a shot that is pleasing to the eye. Try to get as close as possible and get a background that will provide enough contrast to let the animal show up well in the foreground.

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