Migration Mania Sanibel, FL, Swainson's Warbler and more!

Hooded Warbler, male Hooded Warbler, female Cave Swallow Swainson's Warbler Migrants continued coming into Sanibel lighthouse park, FL t...

Warbler Migration Starting, Worm-eating, Kentucky Warblers in Sanibel, FL!

Worm-eating Warbler Kentucky Warbler Hooded Warbler Barn Swallow and Tree Swallow above. Good migrants were coming into Sanibel Lighthouse P...

Beautiful Breeding, Feeding, Flying Birds of the Venice Rookery, FL

Anhinga, male Great Egret Great Egret nestlings, looking for their parent Who arrived and fed them regurgitated fish and them left to find s...

Amazing Burrowing Owl Response to Cooper's Hawk!

I was photographing a Burrowing Owl on Cape Coral, FL, from a distance, when a Cooper's Hawk flew directly at the owl and swiped at it. ...

Beautiful Black-necked Stilts have just arrived!

Black-necked Stilt, male Black-necked Stilt Black-necked Stilt, preening Black-necked Stilt, female Black-necked Stilts have just arrived he...

Pileated Woodpecker Female Exploding From Nest!

Pileated Woodpecker exchange at the nest. the male arrives and the female explodes out of the hole past him. then she flies off to go feed a...

FL State High School Nature Photo Contest Winners

Here I am today with the winners of the Florida high school "Ding" Darling &Theodore Cross" nature photography contest, f...

Sanibel FL, Beach Bird bonanza!

Line up of, from left to right, Semipalmated Plover, Snowy Plover, Piping Plover Piping Plover Snowy Plover Lesser Black-backed Gulls, from ...

Reddish Egret, the rarest wading bird in North America!

Reddish Egret, J.N. Ding Darling NWR, Sanibel, FL recently, doing it's typical "drunken sailor" hunting behavior to catch fish...