 The Actor Brown Pelican
(Pelicanus occidentalis)  |  Black-capped Chickadee Black-capped Chickadee
Poecile atricapella |  Nanday Parakeet Nandayus nenday
|  Black Vulture Coragyps atratus |  Osprey |
 Limpkin Aramus guarauna Limpkin, shot at sunset, preparing for its evening meal. Limpkins are very uncommon outside of Florida. With a length of 26 inches and a weight of 2.4 pounds, they look like giant waders, but five times the size of a Willet, for example. |  Reconnaissance Brown Pelicans are impressive low-level fliers. They can often be seen flying at water level. When gliding, the breast feathers will almost touch the water. Then as the bird flaps its wings, it will rise just enough to keep the down-stroke of the wing out of the water.. |  Morning This Brown Pelican was shot from the North Fishing Pier at the Sunshine Skyway; that's the bridge in the background. Despite the fact that the pelicans seem to have bodies that could never fly, they quite enjoy long glides on air currents near their feeding grounds. I can't get over how, in even my best quality photos, the feathers never seem to be feathers. Here is there is a metallic or plastic sheen that I am sure would not be seen on other birds in the same light. |  Brown Pelican Brown Pelican
Pelicanus occidentalis |  The Enforcer This Brown Pelican has bold breeding colours. In the breeding season, the head is yellower, and the nape of the neck becomes dark brown. |
 ND3_24046 Juvenile Roseate Spoonbill
Platalea ajaja The juvenile Spoonbill still has a feathered head. In another year, it will have the same featherless head as its parents. This was shot just before sunset. The late afternoon sun has cast the shodow of its bill halfway down its back. |  Cormorant Double Crested Cormorant
Phalacrocorax auritus |  ND3_0438 Brown Pelican
(Pelicanus occidentalis) |  ND2_33832 Brown Pelican
Pelicanus occidentalis |  Heartbreaker Brown Pelican
(Pelicanus occidentalis) |
 You Talkin' to Me? Brown Pelican |  ND2_30701 Brown Pelican
Pelicanus occidentalis |  ND2_21726 Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodias Great Blue Heron posing for profile shot. Notice how the feathers are swept to the camera-side shoulder. From any sort of distance, Great Blues look uniformly gray. I am always surprised by the amount of colour that is actually there. |  Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea |  ND3_21831 Little Blue Heron
Egretta caerulea |
 ND3_21912 Little Blue Heron
Egretta caerulea
|  Reddish Egret Reddish Egret
Egretta rufescens |  Juvenile White Ibis White Ibis
Eudocimus albus |  Great Egret
Ardea alba
|  Great Egret Ardea alba
A Great Egret in the early evening at the Pier. Great Egrets can be distinguished from Snowy Egrets because they are bigger by a foot or so and have all-black legs and feet. The bill of a Snowy Egret is all black, while this one clearly has yellow. |
 Great Egret Ardea alba |  Snowy Egret |  Snowy Egret Snowy Egret
Egretta thula |  Night Heron Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Nyctanassa violacea |  ND2_21891 Juvenile Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
(Nyctanassa violacea) |
 Common Loon Gavia immer |  Common Loon Gavia immer |  Roseate Spoonbill Roseate Spoonbill
Platalea ajaja Not just another pretty face. |  Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis |  Northern Pintail Anas acuta |
 Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
|  Red Shouldered Hawk |  Osprey Osprey
Pandion haliaetus |  Osprey
Pandion haliaetus
|  Bald Eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
|
 Bald Eagle
This one of a nesting pair at Honeymoon Island State Park near Dunedin, Florida. |  Piping Plover Piping Plover
Charadrius melodus |  ND3_19393 Black-bellied Plover
Pluvialis squatarola |  Black-bellied Plover Juvenile Black-bellied Plover
Pluvialis squatarola |  American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus) |
 Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatas |  Willet Willet
Catoptrophorus semipalmatas |  ND2_23715 Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpres |  Dunlin Calidris alpina The Dunlin is half the size of the similar looking Willet and about 3/4 the size of a Robin. This would be non-breeding plumage. |  Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla This tiny sandpiper weighs 20 grams; less than an ounce. It breeds throughout North America. |
 Sanderling Calidris alba |  ND2_29996 Great Black-backed Gull
Larus marinus This gull is common on the Atlantic coast, but is quite rare on the Gulf coast, so |  ND2_29920 Laughing Gull in Winter colour at sunset. |  Laughing Gull Dressed up and trying to impress. Laughing Gull in breeding colours,
Larus atricilla |  ND3_3437 Laughing Gull
Larus Atricilla |
 Laughing Gull |  Ring-Billed Gull
|  DSC_9840 Royal Tern
Sterna maxima |  Royal Tern Sterna maxima |  ND2_29896 Royal Tern
Sterna maxima |
 DSC_22506 |  Willet |  ND3_28585 Northern Cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalis |  Norther Cardinal Northern Cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalis |  NZ6_00742 Northern Cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalis |
 ND3_9234 Barred Owl
Strix varia |  ND3_17788 Northern Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottos |  ND3_24194 |  Wood Duck Wood Duck
Aix sponsa
Seen at Mud Lake in Ottawa, October 23, 2023 |  NZ6_00894 Dark-eyed Junco
Junco hyemalis |
 NZ6_00612 Chipping Sparrow
Spizella passerina |  Common Redpoll Common Redpoll
Carduelis flammea |  Downy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker
Picoides pubescens | | |
