We had a nice bike ride through Pond Apple trail this morning. I finally saw the Redhead Duck that everyone has been telling me about.
I heard the bird in the photo below calling out. From the sound he made, it was obviously not a crow. All I could really see from a distance, was a black bird with a big tail. It turns out it is a male Boat-Tailed Grackle.
The bird below is the female Boat-Tailed Grackle. Why is the male bird usually the pretty and colorful bird and the female is almost always drab and plain? What is that about?!!
And one of my favorites . . . a Swallow-Tailed Kite. They are such graceful flyers.
You can almost always see an Anhinga sitting on the rope fence at the pond. They will usually let you walk or ride your bicycle right by them as long as you don’t make a sudden move.
Why did the common gallinule cross the road?
The gator below was all the way across the pond. I thought it was just something floating in the water. But, it was this eerie looking gator.
Always remember to look in the trees over your head!!
When you and your best friend sit on the beach in the rain and watch the dolphins swim by . . . it doesn’t get any better!
The brown pelicans were having a meeting under the causeway bridge.
Right beside the pelican meeting, these two fishermen were enjoying the shade of the bridge while casting for fish, with Fort Myers in the background.