Tuesday 5 August 2014

Good Birds in Florida

Was nice to get some birding in on a recent trip to Florida and add enough birds to pass 500 species for the year, with the addition of 4 new species, Purple Swamphen, Monk Parakeet, Shiny Cowbird and 501: a Burrowing Owl I had missed on two other trips to Powerline Rd, north of Tampa.   No photo of the owl, as it was on a post way out in a farmer's field and by the time I got the scope on it for a digiscoping shot, it flew off into the tall grass.
 
Here are some of the photos I did get:

Limpkin with a Snail


Oops, lost it...

Purple Swamphen


Young Red-bellied Woodpecker eating a berry

 Nooooooooooo!


Shiny Cowbird

Gray Kingbird

Yikes, what just happened?

Another View of the Shiny Cowbird

Monk Parakeet



The post where the Burowing Owl would come after the Meadowlark left

Dumpster Diving female Grackle


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