subbuteo 5/01/2016 13:31
December 2015, Sanibel Island, Florida
I spent a ten day family holiday in Sanibel Island on the Gulf of Mexico coast of Florida, USA. The island is mostly managed conservation land and home of the Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge. The birds are incredibly approachable. I took a few pictures with a compact camera some of which turned out surprisingly well considering.
Along with the birdlife I also saw alligator, racoon, bobcat, marsh rabbit, armadillo, gopher turtle and heard coyote calling (when emergency vehicle sirens went past). I will add a list of birds seen later- happy to be corrected on some of the IDs here- working from memory.
Dylan
Pied billed grebe
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Red knot
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Magnificent frigatebird
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Magnificent frigatebird
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Magnificent frigatebird
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Magnificent frigatebird and tree swallows
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Yellow-throated Warbler
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Northern Cardinal
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Marsh rabbit
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Mourning dove
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Common gallinule (moorhen)
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American coot
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Red-bellied Woodpecker
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Killdeer
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Louisiana Heron
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Yellow-crowned Night Heron
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Double-crested cormorant
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Common grackle
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Tree swallows
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American alligator
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American alligator
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Snowy egret and white ibis
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Least sandpiper
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Snowy egret
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Laughing gull
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Red-breasted Merganser
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American White Pelican
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American White Pelican and Brown Pelican
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Spotted Sandpiper (I yhink... need to check!)
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American White Pelican
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Roseate Spoonbill
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Ding Darling bird flock
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Little Blue Heron
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Yellow-crowned Night Heron
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Eastern Phoebe
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Royal Tern
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Roosting Terns, gulls and waders
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Herring gull (need to confirm?)
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Laughing gull
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Willets and red knot
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White Ibis and sanderling
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Willet, red knot, dunlin
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Dunlin
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Turnstone
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Willet
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Laughing gull
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Ring-billed gull
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Laughing gull
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Laughing gull
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Sandwich Tern
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Terns
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Terns
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[[i] Last edited by subbuteo at 5/01/2016 17:48 [/i]]
lmichael 5/01/2016 14:26
Nice pictures for a compact!
I think that the bird labelled Herring Gull is Lesser Black-backed Gull - American Herring Gull is pale manteled and always has pink legs (these are yellowish). However I would not want to rule out a hybrid.
Also the 'Sandwich Terns' are Cabot's Terns Thalasseus acuflavidus. This is a DNA split - the North American taxon looks much like Sandwich Ter.
Cheers
Mike Leven
subbuteo 5/01/2016 17:56
Thanks Mike- the camera performs well when you can get that close to the birds- nearly treading on them! The American warblers (actually most passerines) respond very well to pishing so come very close. I missed photos of Grey Catbird, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow-rumped warbler, Pileated woodppecker and a lot of other birds due to the slow focus and shutter response. Ospreys are seemingly everywhere but hard to get a decent picture of.
Dylan