One afternoon an Eagle, a Caracara, and a Vulture walked into a bar in Kenansville looking for cocktails, all 3 are after all male.
Author: Jon-Mark
My name is Jon-Mark Davey.
My first career was 30 years in the broadcast industry, mostly television with ABC affiliates in Central and South Florida. I worked with ABC network shows for 2 decades as a location producer for many of the live news and sports programs from Florida.
I've been an computer technologist and IT administrator and system architect. I hold certifications with Microsoft and am a professional network security professional. Along with being a wildlife photographer for fun I enjoy wild and in home birds of all species, mostly Quaker Parrots.
MCSE+I, and IEEE associations
Personal Distancing
My wife and I have been exploring Florida for over 4 decades together. We have some very secluded and very special places we visit in the everglades region of South Florida so when personal isolation became the mandate it was very easy for us to accomplish that goal because we practice it regularly. Yesterday, Saturday,…
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Roseatte Spoonbill – Ding Darling
Watch a short 4k UHD video of the Roseate Spoonbill in Florida
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Rumble in the Wetland
I haven’t photographed and produced a sequence video in a while. So, This is a series of action images of a couple of black bellied whistling guy ducks showing off for the ladies. Photographed in Wakodahatchee Jan 18. Images were captured on Canon 5d IV, developed and encoded to jpg with ACDSee, sequenced and pre-edited…
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A Day in the Backyard
It’s been a while since I visited my backyard at lunch, on a work day, just to take some pictures.
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The Old Mill
The Old Mill This mill is one of my favorite all-time places to photograph. It’s the mill, along the river where mills belong, in Pigeon Forge TN. My first images were captured in the 1970’s when I was carting around a very large box camera exposing 4×5 sheets of film at about $1.50 per shot….
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Very Special Herons live in South Florida
In South Florida we have a couple very special and rare herons. One is the white heron. I’ve been fortunate enough to spot this rare and elusive bird in several places over the years, mostly in the Everglades National Park. In 2012 I was lucky enough to capture a couple images of this one at…
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You Are Getting Sleepy
Yawning encourages drowsiness, and drowsiness encourages sleep. Here is a little yawning yoga practice for those times you need to be encouraged to yawn.
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Wild Quakers of South Florida
Every once in a while I’m in the right place at the right time with the right camera and lens configuration to capture some wonderful wildlife photos. Such was the case on a Sunday afternoon in May, 2019 in Stuart Florida near a friend’s home. Along with being the “sailfish” capitol of the world, and…
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Kermit at Channel 9
Kermit the Frog, Jim Hansen of Muppet fame, was a guest on Bozo’s Bigtop show circa 1973. I was able to capture a couple songs he sang during the program. See if you can remember these: It’s not easy being green Sing A Song The photo is a shot of me, circa 1973, dressed as…
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Flight of the Great Blue Heron
Click… Click… Click… Click…
That’s what you usually hear while standing next to photographers with cameras with big lenses. I often overhear bystanders ask, “Why do they shoot so many pictures of the same thing”?
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Painted Bunting Bathing
Click the video to see a high definition frame-by-frame view of one of the most colorful little birds in North America enjoying an afternoon bath in the wetland of South Florida. I just happened to spot this very beautiful bird taking a very animated bath and was able to capture over 200 very high quality…
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Seattle’s Public Market
Pike’s Market, Seattle. All I can say is, WOW! The colors and smells of the flowers were mindbogglingly beautiful!
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Jo’s Paragliding Adventure during our 45th No-Regret Anniversary, July 2018
Here is something a little different… My wife, Jo, and I celebrated our 45th anniversary (2018) and decided to celebrate it in Jackson Village, Tetons and other areas. The thing is that she turned 65 that year and decided to jump (Paraglide) off a perfectly good mountain in the Tetons. So, being the photographer/videographer I…
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40th Anniversary Video Collection
Click this link to watch the 3 Anniversary videos played at the 2013 anniversary party of Jon-Mark and Jo Davey in Deerfield Beach. Click Below https://vimeo.com/album/5301272/embed
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Cypress Pool – Everglades
Jo and I decided to break Easter tradition this year so we decided to go Alligator hunting. Yea, seriously. On the way to our destination deep in the everglades I just had to click off this very classic Florida shot of an American Egret sitting on the center of a Cypress hammock over an alligator…
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Understanding Caracaras
This weekend Jo and I learned something totally new about the behavior of the Crested Caracaras that we see here in Florida. For a long time we’ve known that our best bet for spotting them is to watch the ground or on a post about eye level. The first time we ever spotted one we…
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