Christmas Wishes
Merry Christmas from Central Florida! Wishing you happy nature walks and bird watching in the coming new year! Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the photo. Enjoy!
Posts tagged ‘Northern Cardinal’
Almost Wordless Friday
Male Northern Cardinal
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Great Egret
Florida Mottled Ducks
White Pelicans, Mallard Ducks, Double-crested Cormorant
American Robins, and a Northern Cardinal
For almost wordless Wednesday, I will share some photographs I took this past week in Iowa. I hope you will enjoy them. Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the picture.
Songbirds at Lake Apopka
Female Boat-tailed Grackle
A pair of Boat-tailed Grackles, a couple of male Red-winged Blackbirds, a Yellow-rumped Warbler, and a male Northern Cardinal were all spotted at the North Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive on the shores of Lake Apopka, in Apopka, Florida on Sunday, March 3, 2019. I did not see many songbirds but saw a lot of wading birds and Osprey on the trip to this large lake. Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the picture. Enjoy!
Male Northern Cardinal
Male Boat-tailed Grackle
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Male Red-winged Blackbird
Male Red-winged Blackbird
Almost Wordless Wednesday: Songbirds in the Yard
Palm Warbler
Finally, I am starting to see our migratory songbirds here! Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of these photos I took on Monday, Nov. 12, 2018. Enjoy!
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse
Female Northern Cardinal
Carolina Wren
Female Northern Cardinal
Tufted Titmouse
Loggerhead Shrike, Northern Cardinal, & Northern Mockingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
A Loggerhead Shrike, Northern Cardinal and a Northern Mockingbird were all spotted on Sunday, March 25, 2018 in The Villages, FL. I saw the male Northern Cardinal at Live Oak Park, the Loggerhead Shrike was seen on the multimodal trail on Morse Blvd. near Mallory Hill Golf Course, and the Northern Mockingbird was seen at the entrance to the Sharon Rose Wiechens Preserve.
I rarely see the Loggerhead Shrikes here so it was great to again spot one. The cardinals are around my neighborhood as are the mockingbirds. The shrikes are great hunters and love insects and very small rodents, lizards and baby birds. The mockingbirds also eat insects while the cardinals mostly eat seeds fruits and berries. By the way, I saw a lot of birds during my excursion from the Northern part of The Villages down South to the Wiechens nature preserve. I will be including some of those in my next several posts here. Please click on the thumbnail image to see the slightly larger version of the photo. Enjoy!
Male Northern Cardinal
Loggerhead Shrike
Female Northern Mockingbird
Happy Independence Day!
Our National Bird, The Bald Eagle
Here are some pictures that you may enjoy! Hooray for the Red, the White, and the Blue! Please click on the thumbnail image to see the larger picture. Enjoy! Have a safe and wonderful Independence Day!
Male Northern Cardinal
Eastern Blue Jay
Snowy Egret
