Birds of Florida

Great photos of a few of the hundreds of wild birds found in Florida, a birdwatcher's paradise. This was my first movie/slideshow edit, so was done mainly as practice. The photos are by my husband. With music and narration

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• birds
• birdwatching
• Florida
• birding
• alligators
• everglades
• nature

[6400az]

These pictures are fantastic. Super job. I have an open question for all.

Early August, I saw what appeared to be an immature or maybe a female, either Sharp shinned, Coopers, or possibly a male Goshawk here in Miami.

The question is ...Why??

Is'nt that too early to fly south for winter? Or is it possible one of the aforementioned species has expanded it's breeding territory and are now nesting here.

I can say for suer it was an accipiter.

Thank you.

[dodgema]

Thanks for your nice comments. I hate to admit how awful I am at ID'ing hawks. There are a couple around here that may have been in a stage that looked like the ones you mentioned. For me to be anywhere near positive, the silly bird has to sit still for a while, fly for a while and turn in all directions ... LOL

[falcoperegrinus82]

The grebe looks like a Least Grebe which is not found in FL.

[dodgema]

It just may be. They're from old photos and some were taken in Texas. I'll check that out when I redo. We do get the pied-billed

[SpruceMtn]

Surely the oriole is a Spot-breasted Oriole, not a Northern Oriole which has a completely black head.

[dodgema]

You may be right ... both are rare here. We did not spot or id these, as they were by friends, but good birders from Canada.

[6400az]

Yes, your right. Hawks are very hard to are to ID, especially imature ones. Seems they ALL look alike. How do you tell a female Sharps hinned from a male coopers when they are immature.Thank you though...

[falcoperegrinus82]

Yeah, I was about to ask if that photo was taken in TX lol

[dodgema]

Thanks for your comments. I did this just to get some practice with video program.

[dodgema]

Sorry for the delay in responding.

I agree it seems odd that the Great Blue Heron is not included. Actually this was an exercise to learn to use my video program(s) so it is pretty basic. I used my husband's photos on our web site. Now that I think of it, it seems strange there are no GBH or sandhill crane photos, as both are very common here too, and seemingly easy to photo.