Fallout, Sanibel Lighthouse

Every birder dreams of fallout. Today dreams came true at Sanibel Lighthouse park where neotropical migrant birds were pouring in, in histor...

Worm-eating Warbler in the bananas

Worm-eating Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Last evening this Worm-eating Warbler showed up in our Sanibel yard, cool! This is a less common mig...

Baby Owls!

Great Horned Owls Burrowing Owls Baby owls are just amazing. We recently got to see both Great Horned Owl and Burrowing Owl young. In both c...

Prothonotary Warbler beauty

This lovely Prothonotary Warbler came in to the Sanibel lighthouse on migration recently, and first stop was the Strangler Fig tree fruits t...

Kentucky Warbler, Hooded Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, oh my!

Life is good when you see the more southern breeding warblers coming into the Sanibel lighthouse on their migration. This morning we saw thi...

Black-and-white Warbler and more at Sanibel lighthouse

At the Sanibel lighthouse this morning, more migrant birds came in from the Gulf of Mexico, including this Black-and-white Warbler male, who...

Northern Parula migrating

Saw this female Northern Parula migrant today at the Sanibel lighthouse park. She was in a native Strangler Fig tree with a few other Northe...

Blue-winged Warbler and more migrants

This afternoon, after seeing all the swallows migrate in the morning, we returned to the Sanibel Island, FL lighthouse and more migrants had...

Cliff and Northern Rough-winged Swallow migration now

Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallows, all were migrating today in Sanibel Just got back from the Sanibel Lighthouse whe...

Lazuli Bunting in Florida

We just saw this Lazuli Bunting, 1st year male, at a feeder in Ft. Myers, Florida, where he is not supposed to be. Lazuli Buntings are usual...