A trip to Flamingo area of Everglades NP

A visit to the Flamingo area of Everglades National Park should always include a visit to Eco Pond. Early morning we found to be best.

Lots of Roseates and Black-necked Stilt 

 

A Video of Roseates feeding in harmony….

 

Roseates and Black-necked Stilt

 

Lots of Black-necked stilt this visit…

A group of Pelican this same morning…

It was busy early in the morning…

I digiscoped a few Roseate spoonbills

We did the short stroll along the pond…

checking to see what other birds were around.

I found this lovely flower..

Any idea what it is?

It looks to me to be a type of morning glory that has yet to unfurl.

More birds as we continue our walk

Black-necked Stilt

 

There were many Florida whites flitting everywhere..

 

Stilt on the other side of the pond…resting after their morning forage.

We leave the pond and go on another search for the leucistic Turkey Vulture..

Black Vulture

The Vultures hang out in the campground searching for leftovers…or unattended foods.

Sadly we didn’t find the bird..

We then headed to the visitor center at Flamingo.

It was low tide and we were searching for Flamingos…sadly, no Flamingos either..Would have been a life bird for us.

On our way back east to our campground at Long Pine we stopped to walk around the Mangroves..

One must very careful while walking thru Mangroves…

Luckily this walk was all on board walk and had railings…

Tall enough to keep the Mangrove Monsters where they belong..

If you saw my last post we know that Jeff and I have moved to Key Largo for a few days. More on that later!