Snowy End

Snowy scenery on the last day of February.

Nesting Season Begins!

I found these female House Sparrows collecting nesting materials today!

Little Blue Heron

Hummingbird Migration has begun!

The first reports of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds reaching land after crossing the Gulf of Mexico are coming in from Alabama, Louisiana and Florida!

Spring is coming!!!

Click on the highlighted links to reach the hummingbirds.net migration website.

Snow Goose

Piping Plover

I took this photo of a Piping Plover in winter plumage near Fort Jefferson on the island of Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas of Florida.  From the Cornell Lab website:  "A small pale shore bird of open sandy beaches and alkali flats, the Piping Plover is found along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, as well as inland in the northern Great Plains.  Because of disturbance by people, all populations are considered endangered or threatened."

Common Myna

Scenes from the Florida Everglades

Black-crowned Night Heron

Glossy Ibis

Anhinga and Nest with Little Ones

Green Heron

Purple Gallinule

Snowy Egret

White Pelicans

Tricolored Heron

American Alligator

Little Blue Heron

Roseate Spoonbill

Wood Stork

Royal Tern

Good Morning, Morning Glory!

Black & White Warbler

Prairie Warbler

Loggerhead Shrike

Common Moorhen

Eurasian Collared-Dove

Gray Catbird

Magnificent Frigatebirds

Below photo shows a juvenile which is recognized by the white head.

Juvenile White Ibis

Great Blue Heron

Below is a white morph of the Great Blue Heron also called the Great White Heron

Common Ground Dove

A very petite little beauty about the size of a sparrow!

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Black Skimmer

Whimbrel

Brown Noddy

Sooty Terns

Breeding season for the Sooty Terns has just begun in the islands of the Dry Tortugas in Florida.