Saturday March 11th
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A Short-tailed Hawk showed up in my yard,
were it made a meal of a dove.
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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.
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| 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
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| Short-tailed Hawk |
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| Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher |
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| Cedar Waxwing |
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| Northern Flicker |
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| Northern Flicker |
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| Gray Catbird |
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| American Robin |
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| Mourning Dove |
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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| American Robin |
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| Blue Jay |
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| Muscovy Duck |
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| Common Grackle |
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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| European Starling with a fig |
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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| Red-bellied Woodpecker |
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| Red-bellied Woodpecker |
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| Brown-headed Cowbird |
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| Palm Warbler |
Rolfs' MilkweedAsclepias tuberosa ssp. rolfsii
