In the trees. Grackles, great egret, black and white warblers and northern parulas.
On the ground, an ibis was eating a snack.
A beautiful morning at Lettuce Lake park.
In the trees and on the ground.
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A walk after work
I saw this lone spoonbill at the office park lake near my work. I noticed that his eye looked a little funny and he was banded. It seemed okay, just sleepy.
Not sure what these baby mallards were trying to eat. Just like a baby, everything goes in the mouth.
A moorhen Mom with a few new babies.
Some very young grackles waiting for Mom to come back with food.
A male grackle shining in the sun.
Chesnut Park in late February.
Sleepy barred owl high up in a tree.
A few usuals – black and white warbler, grackle and a cardinal.
A pileated woodpecker taken right into the sun.
A great blue heron flying close over my head.
I saw this hawk eating something that looked like a really big beetle.
The water near the dock is full of these.
A few of my friends came by to say “Hi” while I was at Chesnut Park in late February.
Lots of fun things in a small park.
I can always find green herons at this lake.
This looks like a young mallard that’s molting and getting his male feathers in.
Lots of young blue jays.
A grackle with a yummy snack.
A leucistic Eurasian collared-dove. It’s rare to see an all white Eurasian dove.
You can always hear the loud screaming of monk parakeets at this park. They nest in the water tower near the park and spend a lot of time on the grass eating. They blend in really well and unless you hear them screaming, you would never know they were in the trees in front of you.
Crescent Lake Park is a small park near downtown St. Petersburg. There’s a small lake with a sidewalk all around. There’s a ball field next door as well as a dog park and houses across the street on 2 sides of the park. On a Saturday morning, the park is full of joggers, walkers, kids playing and me, the crazy lady with the camera.
Random birds and a big baby hawk
A carolina wren working on a late nest.
A young cardinal sitting on the boardwalk.
This male cardinal was deep in the bushes. Not a good picture but it was funny to see him with that caterpillar squished in his beak.
A grackle on the boardwalk.
She came over a little closer, checking to see if I had a snack to give her.
A very young cooper’s hawk. Just starting to leave the nest.
The nest was a few trees back in the woods. For the last couple of weeks, we could hear the babies screaming for food but it wasn’t until the babies started hopping around and branching closer to the boardwalk that we could see them.
A great egret flies by the boardwalk with a snack.
Besides all of the little critters and four-legged ones, there were a few birds at Chesnut Park in mid-July. Nothing unusual but it was great to the see the baby cooper’s hawk after hearing them scream for weeks and not being able to see them from the nest.
Cute and cool at the lake.
What is it about little ducklings that are so cute???
Even hybrid mallards are cute when they are sleeping.
The wood duck is just cool, posing for me.
Another cool duck, the shelduck is not native to Florida. The city of Lakeland bought them for the downtown lake.
Even grackles eat fish.
The usual things sleeping and floating around Lake Mirror.
Birds in south Florida
Pelicans in the mangroves.
Green herons were everywhere.
My first Wurdemann’s Heron (parents are a great blue heron and a white morph great blue heron). They are fairly rare and mostly seen in south Florida. Our sailboat captain pointed him out while we were kayaking around some mangroves about an hour south of Key West. He looks almost like the great blue heron but his head and neck are more white.
It looks like he has something stuck on his eye.
Red bellied woodpeckers were everywhere.
A grackle in the fountain at our hotel.
Our hotel resident green heron.
After looking all week for the white crowned pigeons, I found them in our hotel parking lot the day we were leaving.
Random birds I found in Key West in April.
The almost usual stuff at the lake.
White pelicans who should have been north by now. They were still hanging around central Florida in May.
Ibis flyby.
The beautiful black neck swans were nesting. I don’t know if the babies hatched.
Nosy goose.
Grackle with a snackle.
A laughing gull couple far away from the beach.
An injured ibis. He was still able to fly away.
A turtle in the lake.
I took a quick walk around Lake Morton in Lakeland after my long walk at Circle B Bar Reserve before heading home.
It’s getting hot out there
Beautiful glossy ibis with the sun shining on his breeding feathers.
A grackle staring at something in the water.
Woody in the woods.
A common yellowthroat warbler hiding in the bushes. Most of the warblers are gone now and are up north for the summer.
Moth or butterfly?
Dragonfly on a stick shot.
Cattails were everywhere. My dad loved cattails. I think they look like poop on a stick.
The gators were growling.
“Don’t give me that innocent look.” I said to the gator.
It’s June 1st. It’s going to be a long hot summer. It’s been hot since early April. These were taken in early May and it was stifling hot already at Circle B Bar Reserve. It’s time to hit the coast for the summer breezes and let the gators nap in peace for a few months.
Birds at Lettuce Lake Park
This phoebe was too friendly not to stop and take his picture.
A juvenile little blue heron sees something in the water.
A limpkin was close to the boardwalk.
Grackle shining in the sun.
The little blue heron was moving around the boardwalk. By next summer he will molt and his new feathers will be all blue.
Another phoebe.
A black and white warbler hanging upside down.
Nothing new at Lettuce Lake on a recent Saturday morning.
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