Birds from Eagle Lakes Community Park in Naples

Blue-winged Teal


Glossy Ibis


Wood Stork


Red-shouldered hawk


Pied Billed Grebe

Eagle Lakes Community Park in Naples was a good spot to see some of the more common birds.

Pied-billed Grebes at Sanibel

 

 

Pied-billed Grebes are the smallest and cutest of the seabirds

Grebe

Grebe

This is the pied-billed grebe. We haven't seen one since last fall. The grebe sightting is where Mike first coined the "new duck" alert, calling Chris to come see something unusual. This looks small for a grebe. We think we saw a larger one last night, but didn't get a good picture. According to our books, the ring around the bill means it is in the breeding stage. It's so small that Chris thought it was a baby mallard when she first spotted it following behind a mallard this afternoon.