White Ibis, from one moment to the next

White Ibis, July 24, 2023

Dissolution. That's how it is from this to that.

So many White Ibis were grazing on the big pond edge before taking flight. Before that moment changed, this is how it looked.

In the lens: White Ibis, Blue-headed Vireo, Titmice, Yellow-Crowns

White Ibis

March 6, 2022

I took walks this weekend, so here is a showing of what I saw in the neighborhood. There are so many birds in the canopies, usually pairs. A sign that spring arrives soon.

Blue-headed Vireo (another photo from about this time last year)

Yellow-Crowned Night Herons, they're back! Courting and snuggling. Remember, that deep mustard color on the crown designates female.

Male Hairy Woodpecker

Pine Warbler

Northern Cardinal, male

Tufted Titmouse, actually a pair. Here's one of them.

They are fast!

A Male Red-Bellied Woodpecker enjoying the Bottlebrush Tree.

A Northern Mockingbird

Limpkins chasing each other, then building their nest in an untrimmed Sabal Palm. 

American Fish Crow

No photo, but walking home from the pool two nights ago, we saw and heard two Barred Owls caterwauling. Now, if they'd just choose that nesting box in Pineneedle to make a family.

August days, walking the beach

Juvenile Great Blue Heron, Longboat Key, FL 

The last few days have been windy. So I headed to the beach.

A pair of Willets walking the pier. 

Great Blue Heron, Paragliding Human, and Brown Pelican.

I've seen Blue Herons around the pond, too. Did you know that a source of food for them is vermin? So they're helping to balance our Wildewood ecosystem.

Tom and Jeanne Higbee recently took a photograph of a Great Blue Heron while at the beach. 

When the surf is rough, the lapping waves are foamy. A White Ibis.

Then, this! At first, I thought one Ghost Crab. No, two! I often see this semiterrestial crab running to hide when I walk the beach. Notice their elongated eyestalks? 

On the ride home, look! A flock of Cattle Egret at 53rd and El Conquistador Parkway. See why it has this name? Tropical herons, they forage at the feet of cattle or riding on its back looking for ticks. 

Pre-Thanksgiving pond feast for birds

Tri-colored heron

Birds are feasting at the big pond!

A front passed through and it's breezy and cool. Here is the weather (from the forecast link in the sidebar). 

When this happens, birds visit the large pond in numbers. I heard their delighted calls before I saw them. 

Here is what made me pause. A Fish Crow's call.

And a lot of geese.

Then, the geese took flight. What is that about, I wondered. 

(Look at this Florida fall color.)

I scanned the sky.

This bird landed at the top of a Norfolk pine. An American Bald Eagle!

When the Eagle left, the birds settled. Time to eat. This Brown Pelican (with a Wood Stork) eats fish after fish.

Great Egrets

A Florida Southern Softback turtle poked its head up to check out the action.

Lesser Scaups were in the middle of the pond away from the other birds.

Pied Bill Grebe

So many feathered visitors today.

I watch them as they watch me.

Saturday, November 16, 2019