Field trips around Fort Myers

 

In the last month we have traveled to many different birding areas, mainly with our new friend Tom who is living here at Indian Creek.  We appreciated him taking us to new areas that produced some good birds and wildlife sightings.  

This photo is the inland Prairie Pinelands of Babcock Webb State Wildlife Area looking for the Red-cockaded Woodpecker, and we found some.

Early morning find of our target bird - Red-cockaded Woodpecker

Pine Warblers by the dozens came to pishing

Hundreds of Tree Swallows, feeding and resting

Spotted Orb Weaver

Golden Silk Orb Weaver

No birding trip is complete without a visit to the local landfill.  Look for: Wood Storks, Bald Eagles, 

Cattle and Great Egrets, Laughing and Ring-billed Gulls, Fish Crows and Boat-tailed Grackles.

Bald Eagle Juvenile gives us a fly-over

Next stop, the local Florida Scrub Jays at Cape Coral 

Picking up acorns and hiding them

Red-shouldered hawk low in the Mangroves

Great Blue Heron spies prey

What a surprise, a big rat, and he swallowed it all down.

Little Blue Heron and Mottled Duck

Little Blue Heron Juvenile - bad itch

Loggerhead Shrike swallows a Dragonfly

Red-bellied Woodpecker stashing palm fruit

Black Vulture 

Dew covered webs at Prairie Pines Preserve

Some of you won't want to look at this Cottonmouth (Water Moccasin)

Sunning Cottonmouth at Six Mile Cypress Slough

Pileated Woodpecker at Cypress cavity 

Another trip to Bunche Beach and our favorite Reddish Egret

Short-billed Dowitcher sleeping

American Oystercatcher

Probes for food at low tide

Indian Creek Wood Stork

Brown Pelican feeding in our fresh water ponds 

Our local ospreys fly over the park to the Bunche Beach Preserve

Our local Loggerhead Shrike gets a Cicada

Red-shouldered Hawk at sunrise

Bald Eagle flushes Red-shoulded off the eagles's favorite perch

Pileated Woodpecker overhead

God's Christmas decorations, a beautiful sundog.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas

Love & Prayers,

Ty & Ida Baumann