This trip was an AWESOME one back to Crandon Gardens. You all know I was getting bored with the Fish Crows and European Starlings, but I found some new confirmed breeding species for the blog.
This post shows why you have to go birding on weekday mornings. This place gets crowded with people on weekends and I'm not sure I would have been able to hear what I heard and see what I saw with crowds scaring these birds into hiding. With the 6 new species I photographed today, the blog is quickly approaching 100 species (we're at 96)!
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| I was surprised I didn't see any Peafowl babies. There were many more peacocks around than peahens. |
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| Sandhill Crane baby! I'm not sure if this will count for the Atlas because this population was started when people bought captive birds to populate the gardens but they move around locally now. I e-mailed them about it. Still super cool to see. |
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| So cute! |
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| Common Moorhens start life pretty darn ugly if you ask me. |
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| Begging with those pathetic little wings. So cute! |
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| The Danny Zuko of Muscovy Ducks. |
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| Bunnies! |
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| Teenage Common Moorhen |
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| Is anybody else noticing something weird about the White Ibis's face?... Egyptian Geese |
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| Black-bellied Plovers. Supposedly they just spend their winters here. |
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| Sanderling |
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| Royal Terns. The one with the black forehead on the right is already in breeding plumage. |
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| Yellow-crowned Night Herons building a nest! Only the second confirmed record for Dade County! |
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| My poor attempt at an action shot. |
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| Eastern Kingbird |
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| Gray Kingbird |
This post shows why you have to go birding on weekday mornings. This place gets crowded with people on weekends and I'm not sure I would have been able to hear what I heard and see what I saw with crowds scaring these birds into hiding. With the 6 new species I photographed today, the blog is quickly approaching 100 species (we're at 96)!
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