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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Jeffs Digiscoped Birds~Bunche Beach

Howdee all,

I want to share a few of Jeff's digiscoped photos he took while at Bunche Beach

Wilsons Plover

Osprey from my post yesterday..

The Osprey flew in to grab this fish left in the mudflats by the tide

The Osprey tries to lift the fish

The fish was just a bit to large for it to handle..

It tried several times ..

But couldn’t get the fish in the air.. ..

The Osprey eventually was able to lift the fish and bring it to the shoreline..

Where it stayed and ate most of the fish..

Western Sandpiper..

Some nice brown breeding plumage…..

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

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

Monday, March 26, 2012

Howdee all,

Here we are in Titusville again. Homey is back in for service-the new starter didn't start twice for us.. That will be replaced.
When installing the new gaskets for our slide rooms the paint was scratched in many areas. You would think they would have noticed it when they did it and fixed it then and there. It's a bit annoying that they said nothing.
Jeff is real particular about keeping Homey as scratch free as possible and it was upsetting to find gouges and scratches.
Hopefully they will do a good job matching the paint and it will look as good as new.

Oh look--a Brown Pelican in the coffee shop.

Today we sit in a coffee shop-
We could be birding..but Jeff has 3 tax returns to finish.
I am helping our daughter with her wedding by researching jazz bands and photographers.