I’m going to post a few of my favorite shots from this last weekend and a few from a couple of weeks ago that I somehow missed.
Two weeks ago I was given a tip on a possible Tropical Kingbird in Western Palm Beach County. I drove the hour out to the Glades Marina on Lake Okeechobee and spent a couple wonderful hours birding this fantastic area. I had 20-25 species all within a half mile stretch around a lake and eventually found the Tropical Kingbird feeding very low over an adjacent canal. It was very windy and I guess that’s why he was flycatching from lower perches.

Tropical Kingbird … This was a wonderful new county bird and one I have to thank my friend Brian Hope for alerting me to!
The same week that I had the Kingbird we had a fairly good cold front come through and bring in a few really cool birds. Often a bird that is very common in one part of the country is a special treat for us in South Florida and the American Robin is one of them. Some years go by and we may not see any Robins or at most a small handful but this year we had a flock of a couple hundred at Green Cay Wetlands for a little over a week. Another great thing about seeing Robins is there is invariably Cedar Waxwings with them … another rare treat for us!!
Before moving on to this past weekends highlights I was blessed to get a nice shot of one of our resident Bobcats. This one has been named “Frank” due to his multiple colored eyes!
As I said in the last post I had a fabulous weekend (Tuesdays/Wednesday) and saw some species that I normally don’t record. I was at Loxahatchee NWR and saw close to 60 species of birds and some of the highlights include a county first Blue Grosbeak, a beautiful male American Goldfinch, the pair of Great Horned Owl babies and quite a few Indigo Buntings. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves!

Great Horned Owlets … They are a little bit to far back for my lens but are fantastic looking through a scope!
I’m looking forward to a few more really good weekends as Spring migration should be ramping up any day now. This will be the first Spring in a long time that I don’t travel somewhere else to bird so I am going to have to bird extra hard to try and get the 25-30 species of Warblers that I get when I go to Ohio or Texas. Because I haven’t limited myself to my own county this year I will probably spend a few days at Fort Desoto, Bill Baggs and some of the other migrant traps.
Thank you all so much for visiting!!!
Awesome! These should be in every International magazine for everyone to enjoy.
Nice shots. I want to see a bobcat. 🙂
Love all the pictures