Eagles are back!!

It was exciting to see an eagle back in the nest this week. For the past two years, I’ve seen them in the nest during the first week of September. Their internal calendar seems to have worked again this year! It remains to be seen if they will spruce up the nest and give it a go. There’s no canopy over the nest since the tree was killed last year.

Our son has been visiting for the last week. He is the real bird lover in the family, so we took a drive through Ding this morning. We were delighted to see at least a few Roseate Spoonbills.

Sneaking away from your parents be like . . . .

We saw a couple of Great Blue Herons

Just as we were nearing the end of the drive, we saw a tree full of Ibis. We stopped so I could grab a photo of them and my son noticed that one Ibis had a crab in its beak. On closer inspection, it was more like the crab was holding the Ibis’s beak closed!

The crab decided to make an escape and the Ibis tried to toss it back into his mouth, but failed to keep his breakfast as it dropped into the foliage below.

We made a stop by Pond Apple trail. There are green iguanas absolutely everywhere there. It’s not very pleasant to walk through them since they aren’t very scared of people.

We walked back into a little alcove next to a creek where we’ve previously seen a Black-Crowned Night Heron. We were lucky to get to see one again today, but I couldn’t get a clear photo of it. They are shy and love to hide. We looked down and saw this big gator right in front of us, though. He looks awfully grumpy.