Plant ID Backlog

So, I have a backlog of plants for my daily blog that I am not entirely sure of the species ID.  Would appreciate some help. I need to learn how to ID plants that don't have flowers on them, any  resources you can recommend for that would be great too.  Thanks so much!

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1.  Location: Lake Apopoka, in water. Possibly some type of Oxalis, but they don't seem to grow in water.
2. Location: Lake Apopoka, in water. Water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes)
3. Location: Lake Apopoka, in water. Marsh-pennywort (Hydrocotyle umbellata)
4. Location: Blountston, Florida. Yellow flowery thingie?

Costumes

These are some of the costumes I have made for various events. I also have a cow but it's not really a native critter. Click to enlarge. (Note: I swear I'm not as grumpy as I look in these pictures. )

Northern Cardinal.

Sunflower. 

Blue Jay

Greater Sage Grouse, breeding.

Black Widow Spider

Cardinal and Blue Jay, action shot.

Bird of Paradise.

The kids

I realized that the cat's page got deleted years ago when I had to change to Blogger from Mac. Here are their latest photos.

Me and Pita, Halloween 2017

NummyMuffin in his sushi costume, Halloween, 2017

Barty

Lisa

NummyMuffinCoocolButter

PITA

Maggie

Indian River Birding Festival

We had an amazing time at the Indian River Birding Festival and Art Show this weekend. Thanks to the hard work and incredible organizational skills of Deb Avery, we got to meet a bunch of super awesome people while sharing our love of birding. Thanks so much also to everyone who came out and joined our classes and tours.

Here are a few of the pictures I took this weekend:

Mary, Jason, David and Bonnie on our Pokemon Birding class. Mary participated in her first raid, Jason took over his first gym, David leveled up to 6 and is hatching eggs, and Bonnie submitted her very first Ebird checklist of 10 new life birds. Awesomely successful class!

A Barn Swallow nest at Goodwin WMA.

An immature Black Vulture. You can tell he's immature because he still has some white feathers on his face.

A Little Blue Heron.

Boat-tailed Grackle looking particularly splendid.

Boat-tailed Grackle looking a little grumpy here. 

Another immature Black Vulture. 

An immature White Ibis and a Wood Stork. They are in the same family, intact the Wood Stork used to be known as a Wood Ibis.

It struck me funny that they seemed to be in synch. 

David, Jason and Mary birding at Sebastian Inlet. This wasn't an official festival trip, but fun all the same.

A Snowy Egret, posing nicely.

A Wood Stork, testing the water.

If I was shooting film, I would think this was a double exposure.

A Reddish Egret, posing nicely.

This is kind of cool. At first I thought it was just a picture of a Wood Stork mooning me. But take a look at his beak. It looks like there is a triangle at the base where it is hollow. I have no idea if they are all like this. Need to research more, I guess I've never seen one from this angle before. 

Two Skimmers, looking silly.

I don't know why, but this picture reminds me of that old hair product commercial, "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful."

Osprey

Osprey in a tree.

The Wood Storks were super obliging posers today.

We had either rain or bright perfect weather all 3 days. And it changed every 20 minutes or so. 

Reddish Egret

Skimmers are so adorable when they play.

I think these guys are a band, "Snowies and the Skimmers". Unfortunately, I think one of them was all hepped up on goofballs. 

Another Wood Stork posing handsomely.

This White Ibis just looks so happy to have this fish.

"My fish! You no can has!"

This is a white-morph Reddish Egret. If you look at the pictures above, you can tell by the beak, legs and eyes they are the same species. 

A Great Blue Heron hanging out on the south side of Sebastian Inlet.

We saw so many rainbows this weekend. 

Sometimes larger birds will stand around with their hands on their hips and ask, "Now what do you have to say for yourself?" (Actually, they do this to get mites off their wings, but I like my story better.)

Last, but not least, a Magnifieant Frigatebird looking all dramatic. I thought at first it was a female as I couldn't see the red bulby thing on his neck, but it was there, it was just bad lighting.