More~Bunche Beach Birding~

Howdee all,

While in Fort Meyers area Jeff and I birded Bunche Beach.

These photos were take over several visits to Bunche Beach.

If you want to Bird Bunche..make sure you go low tide.

Most days you will find other birders as well as birds

Oh look at the photo below ..Cute Hubby, Handsome boy and Pretty Girl

Angel and Mariel Abreu of Badbirdz  join us for a morning at Bunche.

If you don’t follow Badbirdz migration radar already you should~its that time of year.

Little Blue and Tri-colored Heron

Reddish Egret and Black-bellied Plover

Rudy Turnstone on the Rocks..

Western Sandpiper

Birders..birding the flats…

Piping Plover

Wilsons Plover

An Osprey flies in..

It had its eyes on a very large fish in one of the shallow pools of water

Too big to fly with..

It tries several times but ends up dragging the fish to the shore and eating it there.

Dunlin and Red Knot

The Red Knots breeding plumage starting to turn reddish..

Skimmers and Terns in the distance take to the air..

We notice a Bald Eagle fly thru.

There are other critters on the mud flats..

Racoon?

If you come at low tide there are always plenty of peeps to look thru.

Marbled Godwit scratching its head..

Short-billed Dowitcher and Black-bellied plover

I found many of these little sand sculptures…

they are hollow..with a hole on the top.

Anyone know what critter makes this?

We leave the flats and walk back to the beach..

A few great mornings birding Bunche..

Below is my Ebird bird list from the last day Birding Bunche Beach.. 47 species

Mottled Duck  
Magnificent Frigatebird  
Double-crested Cormorant  
Brown Pelican  
Great Blue Heron  
Great Egret  
Snowy Egret  
Little Blue Heron  
Tricolored Heron  
Reddish Egret  
White Ibis  
Black Vulture  
Turkey Vulture  
Osprey  
Bald Eagle  
Red-shouldered Hawk  
Black-bellied Plover  
Wilson's Plover  
Semipalmated Plover  
Piping Plover  
Killdeer  
American Oystercatcher  
Spotted Sandpiper  
Willet  
Marbled Godwit  
Ruddy Turnstone  
Red Knot  
Sanderling  
Semipalmated Sandpiper  
Western Sandpiper  
Least Sandpiper  
Dunlin  
Short-billed Dowitcher  
Laughing Gull  
Ring-billed Gull  
Caspian Tern  
Forster's Tern  
Royal Tern  
Sandwich Tern  
Black Skimmer  
Mourning Dove  
Red-bellied Woodpecker  
Great Crested Flycatcher  
Blue Jay  
Palm Warbler  
Prairie Warbler  
Northern Cardinal