Marco Island
Picayune Strand State Forest
Picayune Strand National Forest
Picayune Strand National Forest - one of only about 10,000 of these birds remaining
Sudgen Regional Park, Naples, FL
Sudgen Regional Park, Naples, FL
Sudgen Regional Park, Naples, FL
Sudgen Regional Park, Naples, FL
Sudgen Regional Park, Naples, FL
Collier-Seminole State Park
Great blue herons are typically blue-gray, but rarely a white “morph,” like this one, occurs.
American white pelicans, wood storks, great and snowy egrets, and others.
Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail
Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail
Egrets and storks present in huge numbers.
Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail
Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail
Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail
Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail
Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail
Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail
Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail
Herons, egrets, storks, and pelicans at Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail
Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail
Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail
Eagle Lakes Community Park
Collier-Seminole State Park
Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail
With American white pelicans at Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail
Two great egrets roost with two snowy egrets before a storm at Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail
Big Cypress Preserve
Big Cypress Preserve
Big Cypress Preserve
Big Cypress Preserve
Big Cypress Preserve
Big Cypress Preserve
Marco Island
Marco Island
Big Cypress Preserve
Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
This reddish egret is tossing a tiny fish into its mouth at Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
Tigertail Beach on Marco Island is a critical nesting site for these endangered piping plovers
Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
Ten Thousand Islands
Ten Thousand Islands / Gulf of Mexico
Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
(and a lone Wilson’s plover) Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
with a ruddy turnstone photobomber, Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
A banded piping plover on Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
(by Abby)
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
Called the “crying bird” or “wailing bird” for the horrible sound it is making here! Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
A white ibis catches a crab, Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
“Shadowing” behavior, using wings to block the glare on the water, Tigertail Beach, Marco Island
Tigertail Beach, Marco Island