Glossy Ibis, Long-billed Dowitchers

Here are a few more photos I took while at the Space Coast Birding Festival. These Long-billed Dowitchers were at Merritt Island National Wi...

Space Coast Birding Festival Crested Caracara

I just took this photo of this Crested Caracara (2nd yr.) this morning at the Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands at Viera, one of the birding p...

Stokes at Space Coast Birding Festival

Florida Scrub-Jay Come escape the cold and see us at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, Titusville, FL where we will be giving a...

Sunset Heron

Tri-colored Heron, sunset One of the fun things is going to Ding Darling NWR, Sanibel, FL, at sunset and watching all the herons move about,...

Tale, (tail) of the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. The undertail is completely white and white extends through the undertail coverts. What's f...

MId-Air Catch, Ahinga

Anhinga's are amazing birds. They can swim underwater, stab a fish, then toss it, and catch it, then it goes down the hatch. Here you ca...

Brown Pelican, excedrin headache

We spoke of how White Pelicans feed in yesterday's blog. Here's how Brown Pelicans feed. They fly up, then plunge head first into th...

White Pelicans, up close and personal

White Pelicans are such group-oriented birds They do the same things at the same time, preening and then going out to feed. Sending you some...

Hunting

Green Heron, imm. waiting in the mangroves, to strike at a passing fish. While other birds, like this Double-crested Cormorant, actively cha...

hippie Anhinga

"She looks like something we wore in the '60's" said the lady next to me as I stood photographing this lovely female, adul...

The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America, current favorite..

Fun fact: This Pileated Woodpecker photo on the back of The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America was taken by Lillian Stokes, at...

Pied-billed Grebe ballerina

Pied-billed Grebe, photographed in soft light, taking off, looking like a ballerina, so ungrebe-like. I love experimenting with unusual ligh...

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull, adult winter Here's another of the same bird. Here's a 3rd winter Lesser Black-backed Gull. Note the black...

Yellow-throated Warbler, Yum spider!

Yellow-throated Warbler, Dendroica dominica We're down in Sanibel Island, FL where the birding and bird photography is just great. I pho...