I was coming home from the grocery store and saw this guy feeding in my neighborhood. I had my camera in the car so I had to make a quick stop and shoot this.
I’ve been keeping an eye out on the towers in the neighborhood and one day I saw this juvenile eagle sitting high up. Several of the towers have nests but I was thinking they were all osprey nests. One of the nests was an eagle’s nest. Maybe this guy was born in the neighborhood last year?
There’s a water reclamation facility close to home and every winter the pond is filled with wintering ducks. I finally stopped to check out what kind of ducks they were. This is a small section of the ducks that were in the pond. The majority of them were redhead ducks but there were a few lesser scaup mixed in. I think this pond has the highest number of wintering ducks in the area.
There were a few hooded mergansers staying away from the other ducks and kept close to the fence.
One morning I was heading to the Oldsmar fishing pier and I caught these guys right before the pier. “A spoonbill, a woodstork and a great egret walk into a bar…..”
I was heading to the fishing pier because I had seen an eagle sitting in the tree in the parking lot there back in October. I hadn’t seen him since until this day. He was cruising around the fishing pier before taking off over the houses nearby.
What a great post, lots of wonderful bird sightings. Nice capture of the buck! That is a big group of ducks. I love the Eagle images and the Spoonbill with the Wood Storks. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Take care, have a happy weekend.
Wow! You saw something amazing things this week. We drove out to the Gulf today and were so happy to see Eagles again. But the Spoonbill is my favorite FL bird and we rarely see one in the wild! How awesome!!!
wow! What a wonderful collection of critters!! You are so lucky to capture all of them in beautiful photos. I love to see these winter ducks. So amazing!
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Beautiful.