Rose Breasted Grosbeak photographed at Fort De Soto Park a few weeks ago. What an awesome bird. 

 

Ahhhh, after a week of no birding.....today another life bird. This is a Common Mynah reported yesterday at Fort De Soto Park. Theses strange birds are not native to America but were introduced to South FL or were escapees that found each other and formed a population. Even though this is not a native bird, it is countable since it has a sustained US population. They are unusual this far North and tend to prefer parking lots where they pick dead bugs out of the wheel wells of cars.

 

 



 

 

 

Slow news day at Fort De Soto Park. Ran over this morning to see if any stragglers (late migrants) were passing threw. Pretty dead, a few Black and White and Palm Warblers, a few Indigo Buntings. The highlight was a Northern Waterthursh at the East Beach and a Gray Kingbird on the way into the park on Terra Verde. Looks like the migration party is coming to an end.

A few of my favorite photos from this spring-

Welcome to my new or at least improved blog. I am still in Tampa (since February 6th) and enjoying life. Did a lot of FLA birding this spring with close to 160 species recorded and some very nice photos. I made several trips to Fort De Soto Park (only a 30 minute drive south) and met many great folks from all over the US and Canada, also there for the birds. So far I have seen 2 life birds, Mangrove Cuckoo and Black Whiskered Vireo (Photos below). Both of these birds are considered "Florida Specialties" and are not very easy to find. My next two target life birds are Bachman's Sparrow and Red-Cockaded Woodpecker.

More posts and photos to come. thanks for visiting and please drop me a line.

Tim

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