Ding and Pond Apple Trail

A drive through Ding and a walk around Pond Apple Trail gave me the chance to get some photos of several different birds and an iguana. The Reddish Egret below along Wildlife Drive was looking pretty with its mating plumage.

The sweet little bird below is a Pied-Billed Grebe. It’s a small waterbird with a thick bill and almost no tail. The breeding ones have a vertical black stripe on the bill, like the one below.

At Pond Apple Trail, we came upon a beautiful Black-Crowned Night Heron. It’s not often that we get to see one and they are quite shy, usually hiding behind foliage. I love the eye color.

In a nearby tree, we found a juvenile Black-Crowned Night Heron. The bill that is half black and half yellow/green is a key to identifying this as a juvenile Black-Crowned Night Heron instead of a juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron.

In the tree above the heron, there was an Iguana clutching to the branch being blown around by the wind.

In the photo below, the spider web was hanging above the water, attached to the little walkway bridge and some sticks. The spider in the middle appears to be holding the web together. It made me think of how we often weave our own webs and then hold on by a thread.