Wednesday, May 23rd
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| American Oystercatcher at Sanibel Causeway |
Headed over to Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island in hopes of locating a mangrove cuckoo. The high tides really reduced the shore birds and waders. Did find a single Willet, a pair of Mottles Ducks, fifteen Roseate Spoonbills and a few waders. Did luck out with locating a calling Black-whiskered Vireo and a White-eyed Vireo at the crossover dike. A couple of years age I had success at this spot with spotting a couple of mangrove cuckoos. But today I did not hear or see any here or at other likely spots.
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| Roseate Spoonbills at Ding Darling |
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| Great Blue Heron |
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| View of Estero Bay |
On the way back home I stopped on the Sanibel Causeway beaches and got some good photos of a pair of
American Oystercatchers posing on the rocks. Other birds seen included
Ruddy Turnstones,
Willets, Laughing Gulls, a lone
Least Tern, a few
Brown Pelicans
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| Yellow Rat Snake sunning itself on Wildlife Drive |
Great pictures...keep it up
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