Birding Bonanza

Skip and I went out yesterday afternoon to do a birding walk with Robert at the Birding and Nature Center.

Roseate Spoonbill

Black-bellied Whistling Ducks

Beat up Red Admiral Butterfly

Spotted Sandpiper

Long-billed curlew and Marbled Godwit

Snoozing Roseate Spoonbill

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Black-bellied Plovers

Northern Harrier

White Ibis with black feathers showing and 2 Black-bellied Whistling Ducks

Little Blue Heron

Black-necked Stilt (female)

Stilt and Greater Yellowlegs

Great Egret

Loggerhead Shrike

Butterfly garden at the Birding and Nature Center

Gulf Fritillary

Gulf Fritillary

Softshell Turtle

Green Heron

White-Striped Longtail Butterfly

Fiery Skipper

Then we went over to the Convention Center where we saw the rose-breasted grosbeak again. Our research tells us this is an adolescent male.

Northern Mockingbird

Then we saw this brown thrasher again.

There was a brief appearance from a Lincoln Sparrow.

Giant Swallowtail

A couple of male Monarch Butterflies

Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly