| Author |
Message Text |
|
mapsguy1955
|
quote hooky: "3 years ago, I was fishing out of the chassahowitzka river with a buddy who has retired down there. We saw swallow tail kites multiple times each day. I never got pictures and only realized later how rare it once was to see so many of them."
There are many here in late spring and early summer... Sometimes I have seen 20 or more at a time. (Vero Beach FL)
|
|
Ausable
|
Today, I was working on some photographs that I had taken last February (2015) during a trip that my wife and took to Florida. I'm sure that many of you have had or will have the privilege of visiting that great state in the winter. Of all the birds that we saw, I think that two were highlights for us: Painted Buntings and Roseate Spoonbills. Anyway, here is a list of the birds in my pictures from that trip.
American White Pelican
Anhinga
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black Vulture
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Laughing Gull
Little Blue Heron
Osprey
Painted Bunting
Red-shouldered Hawk
Roseate Spoonbill
Tricolored Heron
Whip-poor-will
White Ibis
Wood Stork
Willet
|
|
RLancer
|
I was lucky to be able to live in Florida for four months for work. I was there from May until mid August. The only real new bird for me was the Swallow-tailed Kite. They were really common where I was in north Florida. I think that there may have been a nest somewhere near my lodging. It's awesome that you got to se Painted Buntings and Spoonbills. The Spoonbills were one of the birds that I really wanted to see.
|
|
hooky
|
3 years ago, I was fishing out of the chassahowitzka river with a buddy who has retired down there. We saw swallow tail kites multiple times each day. I never got pictures and only realized later how rare it once was to see so many of them.
|
|
Ausable
|
My wife and I were in St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge this past February. This Vermillion Flycatcher was near the road. Its normal range is in the southwestern US, so its appearance in Florida was very unusual. The folks at the visitors center alerted us that the bird had been sighted.
|