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The Usual Suspects.
The usual suspects along the trail: pied grebe, sparrow, palm warbler, cardinal, snowy egret and a hawk that looks half asleep. This very handsome common yellowthroat was posing nicely for me. An...
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The usual suspects at Lettuce Lake Park
The parks are full of white eyed vireos and phoebes right now. “Common” yellowthroats are pretty common as well. Doves get no respect even though they have pretty pink feet. Limpkin eating a snail....
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New Year’s Day “Name that bird”
Female belted kingfisher (Males do not have the brown stripe across the chest). Female red bellied woodpecker (Males have full red on his head). Male common yellowthroat (Female does not have the...
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A beautiful morning at Lettuce Lake Park
A limpkin and his reflection trying to find snails. A young red shoulder hawk landed on the boardwalk right in front of me. He sat there for a while looking around until someone walked up to him from...
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All the usual wildlife at Chesnut Park
I saw a hawk sitting on the pole holding up the volleyball net. A few minutes later it started to rain. I ducked under cover but he just sat there through the quick shower. All of the usual birds...
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Critters at Chesnut Park.
Driving into the park, I caught a deer getting a snack in trees. Creepy little critters. Cute bigger critters. Someone had left bird seed along the boardwalk earlier that morning. Only the titmouse...
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Little hummers and other things
My second ever rufous hummingbird sighting. This one and the one before were both at Bok Tower Gardens. Rufous hummingbirds are fairly rare around this area. This is only the 2nd time of hearing about...
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Just catching sunrise.
I use to set my alarm to get up early on the weekends but lately my internal alarm has been going off early and I got out of bed one Saturday morning in November and headed to Circle B Bar Reserve....
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The moon was still up
There’s something magical about being at Circle B Bar Reserve when the sun is coming up. Besides it not being crowded or hot yet, the birds and critters are very active this early in the morning. It...
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Flappers at Circle B Bar Reserve
Some of the little birds that are often seen at Circle B Bar Reserve are the house wren and common yellowthroat. We were looking for the yellow billed cuckoo along the trail and someone spotted this...
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