This past Saturday on Blackpoint Wildlife Drive, we also had the chance to see an immature White Ibis fly by. This particular individual interests me because it appears he has a eye brow. I suspect this has to do with the bird’s molt into adult plumage. Immature White Ibises have feathers in the area around […]
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Florida Scrub Jay
After we finished Blackpoint Drive this past Saturday, we drove out to Scrub Ridge Trail to look for Scrub Jays. I first visited this area in 2010, and during my first view visits, I would usually find them, but they seemed to take no interest in me. A couple years ago, though, all that began […]
Willets in Flight
We had yet one more fun moment at Blackpoint Wildlife Drive this past Saturday. Three Willets flew by, making a half-circle around us before landing in the water. When they were far away, I was able to get all three in the frame. When they were closer, I was only able to get one. When […]
Black-necked Stilt Walking
On Blackpoint Wildlife Drive, at the same pool where we had seen the Tricolored Herons, Reddish Egrets, Roseate Spoonbills and Willets in my previous posts, we also found several Black-necked Stilts. Several walked pretty close by while we were parked. These birds can be a little bit of a challenge to photograph–the problem is they […]
Reddish Egret Feeding
Reddish Egrets are one of my favorite birds. There was one feeding on Blackpoint Wildlife Drive this past Saturday. He put on quite a show. The best thing about watching these birds is their “canopy feeding.” They dart around like they’re crazy, and then they lift their wings over their heads and jab their bills […]
Roseate Spoonbill Landing
Yesterday my father and I went out to Merritt Island. We saw nothing terribly unusual (we went in part to find a Neotropic Cormorant that was seen the day before, but we never located it), but there were several photographic moments. We went first to Black Point Wildlife Drive, and the lighting was pretty good. […]
Tricolored Heron Preening
You gotta love the way wading birds can contort their bodies to preen. Every once in a while, the poses they strike just strike me as fun and amazing. This Tricolored Heron decided to put on a preening show on Saturday when I was at Merritt Island. Pretty fun. There’s now he’s all settled again. […]
Wekiwa Springs SP, 4/23/2013
We had a pretty fun morning at Wekiwa Springs State Park. My dad wanted to find Bachman’s Sparrows, I wanted Red-headed Woodpeckers, and we both wanted to find Short-tailed Hawks. We went home photographing two out of three. We found two Red-headed Woodpeckers, and one landed not too far from us and put on quite […]