Ding Darling, Lover's Key, Fort Myers Beach

 

Half way through our stay at Indian Creek in Fort Myers Beach, the eagles are continuing to build their nest and get ready for egg laying.  To be continued....

We also have been going to many birding areas and have met a local Birder expert Tom, who has taken us to some unique places we would have never found on our own.

Eagle pair territory announcement 

Bald eagle returns to nest, hard to keep track of these birds

Osprey stare down

Osprey attacks Eagle - Eagle will not give up his tree

Loggerhead Shrike preys on Anole

Male Ground Dove

Four inch long Anole shedding it's skin

Sharp-shinned Hawk, juvenile

 

Black Skimmer flock along Ft.Myers Beach

Royal, Sandwich and Forester's Terns

Willet, Ruddy Turnstone and Black Bellied Plover

Black-bellied Plover, winter plumage

Ruddy Turnstone

Snowy Egret snatches Dragonfly by jumping up

Snowy gets a Common Green Darner

Not willing to share

Tricolored Heron herding fish

Tricolored Heron grabs fish

Taking off with his catch, a lot of work for small fish

Wilson's Plovers find security in beach grass

Limpkin hunting for Apple Snails

Limpkin gets his snail and then is harassed by Great Egret

American Kestrel

Palamedes Swallowtail

Large Alligator sunning at Crew Rookery

Green Heron balancing on the highwire

Green Heron pretends he's a palm frond

Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, many acres but not enough for two 

Yellow-crowned Night-herons.

Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Greater Yellowlegs

Black Racer Snake shares the boardwalk

Time moves on, another new moon and low tides.

Enjoying our time at Indian Creek 

Love & Prayers,

Ty & Ida Baumann