Three in one

Three birding trips in one. Two weekends ago I went to see the Pembroke pines eagle nest to see the eaglet, unable to see any activity in the nest, was leaving the area when one of the adults flew into the area, lucked out. Then last weekend Cindy and I joined the Hendry county Audubon  caravan through the STA5  area outside Clewiston. It was quit the cool field trip, saw several life list birds. Then a quick trip through the Plantation preserve park with Cindy and her granddaughter ( a future birder) to see the last two plus several others. Not a bad couple of weeks.  

Bald eagle   giving me the eagle eye

Peregrine falcon      life list

Purple swamp hen        life list

Northern shoveler

Tropical king bird       life list

Red shouldered hawk

Great blue heron with a  big catfish

Belted kingfisher

one of many gators

Blue-grey gnatcatcher

Yellow rumped ?   though it looked much larger than a warbler.

Fluffer's

To gloomy to go out birding today, wouldn't get any good pictures. So I decided to go through my pics on the computer and I started to notice a lot of fluffer's, so I decided to do a post, with ones I already had with a theme. 

Ibis

Red winged blackbird

Muscovy duck

Bald Eagle

Osprey

American pelican

? Coopers or Sharp-shinned

Peacock

Glossy Ibis

Snowy egret

Red bellied woodpecker

Black and white warbler

Great blue heron

Wood stork

Around the yard

Sometimes you just don't need to go far to see birds and wildlife. Sometimes their in your own backyard, and front . And sometimes there's nothing to be seen anywhere, but the last several days have been good in the yard. Also seen (2) Red bellied woodpeckers, female Cardinal, Palm Warbler, plus several of my doves.  

Posted by Lauren

Female Painted Bunting at my feeder

Pied billed Grebe in our canal

Osprey in a tree on the canal

one of many squirrels

Moon this a.m.

Anhinga in the canal

Male Painted Bunting in one of the feeders

Grackle in the Poinciana tree

Yellow bellied sapsucker in the Poinciana tree