This past weekend I had the opportunity to visit Naples, Florida for the lavish wedding of my niece. In between the quite spectacular festivities, I took the opportunity to do some nearby birding. Well ... I wouldn't say birding exactly ... more like looking for photo opportunities at nearby locations where the possibility for seeing something seemed likely. I had really hoped to find Piping Plovers, but no luck with this. All of the photos below are of birds one would expect to see in southern Florida - shorebirds, gulls, terns and pelicans. I saw very few little birds.
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Laughing Gull (Larus atricilla) with fish.
Delnor-Wiggins State Park |
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Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) looking for the bait.
Delnor-Wiggins State Park |
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Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) checking the bait supplies.
Delnor-Wiggins State Park |
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| Same Snowy Egret |
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Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
Delnor-Wiggins State Park |
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Willet (Catoptophorus semipalmatus)
Delnor-Wiggins State Park |
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea)
Delnor-Wiggins State Park |
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Worn Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae)
Delnor-Wiggins State Park |
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Spiny orb-weaver (Gasteracantha cancriformis)
Delnor-Wiggins State Park |
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Brown anole (Anolis sagrei)
Tigertail Beach, Marco Island |
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Sandwich Terns (Sterna sandvicensis)
Marco Island |
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| Sandwich Tern |
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Royal Tern (Sterna maxima)
Marco Island |
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Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)
Marco Island |
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Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
Tigertail Beach, Marco Island |
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Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus)
Tigertail Beach, Marco Island |
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Sanderlings (Calidris alba) doing what Sanderlings do.
Delnor-Wiggins State Park |
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| View from the Sunset Grill on Marco Island |
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