A Few Pics

Friday, March 1st

Did a little local birding the past couple of days

A somewhat downy and sleepy 

Great Horned Owlet

Seems that springtime is carrying on.  Many nesting birds.  Observed a Snail Kite, yesterday, carrying nesting materials, while some birds like Bald Eagles and Great Horned Owl babies will be fledging soon.

Wildflowers are blooming and butterflies and dragonflies are evident as they flutter and zoom about on these warming days.

Pearl Crescent Butterfly

Appears to be a Krider's Red-tailed Hawk seen along Blumberg Road in Hendry County

Brown Cuban Anole

An invasive and dominate species

replacing the native green anole

Another Brown Cuban Anole.  My first inclination was to identify it as another invasive lizard, the Brown Basilisk, because of the crests, which I learned are called a roach.

 I don't recall seeing a specimen displaying such a large roach

Prairie Warbler. 

Warblers have been a very difficult birds to photo as they don't tend to pose. 

House Sparrow. A while ago we called them English Sparrows. Not sure why the name change.  

They brought over here from England

Monk Parakeets can be found at the baseball fields on Pelican Boulevard in Cape Coral

Palm Warbler. Some are starting to show more of their breeding colors

 as spring migration approaches