Birding From Home

 Saturday March 11th

A Short-tailed Hawk showed up in my yard,
 were it made a meal of a dove.

At my home, in Fort Myers there is a huge ficus tree. iNaturalist identifies it as a Chinese Banyan and
it's been dropping ripening fruit for the past couple of weeks. This can be quite messy, but this year all this fruit has attracted a lot birds. Large flocks of Cedar Waxwings, plus American Robins and Gray Catbirds, Red-bellied Woodpeckers and Northern Flickers, a one day only visiting Summer Tanager was seen, dozens and dozens of yellow-rumped Warblers were actively eating the fruit, as were Starlings and Fish Crows

Other birds attracted to the feeders are Brown-headed Cowbirds, Northern Cardinals, Common Grackles, Muscovy Ducks, Morning, White-wing, Eurasian and Common Ground Doves, Blue Jays, Painted Buntings and a Indigo Bunting.

Additional we had Northern Parulas, Palm Warblers, a Yellow-throated Warbler, Great Crested Flycatcher a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, White Ibis, Red-shouldered Hawk and a Crested Caracara roosting in a neighbor's tree.

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Even had a Short-tailed Hawk grab a dove in my yard. Not a bad couple of weeks.  The fruit is about spent, so most of these species will start departing to other interesting places and will be heading north soon on the Spring Migration

Short-tailed Hawk

Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher

Cedar Waxwing

Northern Flicker

Northern Flicker

Gray Catbird

American Robin

Mourning Dove

Yellow-rumped Warbler

American Robin

Blue Jay

Muscovy Duck

Common Grackle

Yellow-rumped Warbler

European Starling with a fig

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Brown-headed Cowbird

Palm Warbler