Tales from a Birder

Two Wild Turkeys and a Sandhill Crane, just going for a stroll in Lake Kissimmee State Park.

A Common Loon fishing in Northwestern Maine! Favorite bird alert!

This Gray Catbird checked us out while we ate dinner at a riverside restaurant in Maine!

Blurry photo? Yes. Spark bird? Also yes! I photographed this Northern Parula in 2012, and it sparked a love of birds and birding that has continued to this day :)

A Black Skimmer egg on display at the Weeks Bay nature center!

Four Brown Pelicans over Weeks Bay.

Sometimes you just have to post a banana spider from Grand Bay, Alabama.

Just a couple of Black-necked Stilts, hanging out in an old golf course pond in Grand Bahama.

A Smooth-billed Ani spotted me on Grand Bahama!

Abandoned golf courses can be good habitat apparently! These Northern Shovelers and Least Grebes took advantage of this pond on Grand Bahama.

Gulls and a Great Blue Heron rest on a trap in Grand Bahama.

A Sanderling probes the sand in Grand Bahama.

Doves are honestly so cute. Look at these little Common Ground Doves in Grand Bahama!

Playing hide and seek with a Cuban Emerald Hummingbird on Grand Bahama!

A Cuban Emerald Hummingbird taking a rest. Spotted on Grand Bahama.

Red-legged Thrush at Garden of the Groves in Grand Bahama. Just look at that eye!!

This Yellow-throated Warbler in Grand Bahama was very interested in the fruit loop on the stairs!