Susan's Bird Sightings

 Photograph, a Yellow-Crowned Night Heron chick in our neighborhood

This page lists 96 different bird sightings in Wildewood Springs, Bradenton, FL.

American Bald Eagle - juvenile, adult
American Coot
American Robin
Anhinga, juvenile (nest-building)
American Wigeon
Blackbird, Red-winged
Cardinal, Northern 
Cedar Waxwing
Common Moorhen
Cormorant

Crow, American
Crow, Fish
Dove, Mourning 
Duck, American Black

Duck, American Wigeon

Duck, Black-bellied Whistling (and 5 chicks)
Duck, Blue-winged teal 
Duck, Green-winged teal
Duck, Florida mottled
Duck, Mallard 

Duck, Muscovy
Duck, Redhead
Duck, Ring-necked
Duck, Ruddy

Duck, Northern Shoveler

Duck, Wood 
Eagle, Bald (juvenile; adult)
Egret, Cattle

Egret, Great
Egret, Snowy 

Flicker, Northern
Flycatcher, Great Crested 
Gallinule, Common
Gallinule, Purple

Gnat-catcher, Blue-grey

Goose, Canada 
Grackle, Boat-tailed

Grackle, Great-tailed
Gray Catbird
Grebe, Pied-billed 
Grosbeak, Rose-breasted

Gull, Ring-billed
Gull, Laughing
Hawk, Common Nighthawk

Hawk, Cooper's

Hawk, Broad-winged Hawk

Hawk, Red-shouldered (fledgling)
Hawk, Red-tailed
Hawk, Sharp-Shinned
Heron, Great Blue
Heron, Great White

Heron, Green (fledglings)
Heron, Little Blue 
Heron, Tri-Colored
Heron, Black-Capped Night

Heron, Yellow-Crowned Night (5 nests/May 2018)
Hummingbird, Ruby-throated
Ibis, Glossy
Ibis, White 
Jay, Blue
Kingfisher, Belted

Kite, American Swallow-tailed 
Limpkin (another Limpkin post) (nest)

Magnificent Frigate (overhead)

Merlin
Merganser, Hooded (female)

Mockingbird, Northern
Osprey
Owl, Barred (courting)
Owl, Eastern Screech
Owl, Great Horned 
Pelican, Brown  

Pelican, White

Sapsucker, Yellow-Bellied (female) 

Sandpiper, Solitary
Scaup, Lesser

Skimmer, Black 
Spoonbill Roseate 
Swallow, Tree
Tern, Caspian 

Tern, Royal
Titmouse, Tufted 

Trasher, Brown
Thrush, Hermit

Vireo, Blue-headed
Vulture, Black

Vulture, Turkey 
Warbler, Black-throated Green
Warbler, Palm 
Warbler, Pine
Warbler, Yellow-rumped 
Woodpecker, Downy

Woodpecker, Hairy
Woodpecker, Pileated
Woodpecker, Red-bellied
Wood stork (courting

Wren, Carolina

OTHER PLACES (nearby)

Egret, Cattle

Merganser, Common (swimming in Gulf, off Anna Maria Island)
Oystercatcher, American
Parakeet, Blue-crowned (Palma Sola Avenue)
Phoebe, Eastern (Perico Preserve, off Manatee Road, Bradenton)
Plover, Black-capped (in Whitfield area on dock, bayside; Anna Maria Island)
Plover, Snowy (Anna Maria Island)

Red Knots (Anna Maria Island)
Sanderling (Anna Maria Island)
Sandpiper, Spotted (dock, Palma Sola Blvd)
Tern, Common (Anna Maria Island)
Tern, Forester's (Anna Maria Island)
Tern, Royal (Anna Maria Island)
Tern, Sandwich (Manatee Public Beach, Holmes Beach, FL) 
Willet, Western (Anna Maria Island)
Wren, Winter (Anna Maria Island)
Yellowlegs, Greater (53rd Street and 75th Street, Bradenton, FL)

OTHER PLACES (far away)

Booby, Brown (Dry Tortugas)
Chickadee, Black-capped (Rainy Lake, Canada)
Duck, Tufted (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Eastern Bluebird (Clermont, FL)
Grebe, Great-Crested (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Kinglet, Ruby-crowned (Steamboat Springs)
Loon, Common (Rainy Lake)
Pigeon, Wood (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Sparrow, House (St. Augustine)
Sparrow, Song (St. Augustine)
Sparrow, White-throated (Rainy Lake)
Swallow, Barn (Key West)
Nut Hatch, Orange-breasted (Rainy Lake)
Puffin, Tufted (Alaska)
Warbler, Yellow-rumped (Rainy Lake)
Wigeon, American (Steamboat Springs, CO)