SUNSET OVER NAPLES PIER

   Today was a perfect day in Naples for a beautiful sunset.  It rained in the afternoon and stopped raining before sunset.  Then much of the clouds, but not all cleared away.  Here are the photos of the sunset from a beach in Naples with a view of the Naples Pier:

PHOTOS OF THE DAY: DRAGONFLY

   Sharon and I traveled from Canada to Naples, FL today.  My son's wedding is this coming Saturday.   In the afternoon we went birding at Eagle Lakes Community Park and Crayton Cove.  In following blogs we will give photos of birds we sighted.  While walking we came across a beautiful dragonfly who seemed to pose for us:

TRUMPETER SWAN - USGS/CANADIAN WILDLIFE SERVICE CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION

   Recently received Certificates of Appreciation from the USGS/Canadian Wildlife Service for reporting tagged Trumpeter Swans to the USGS Bird Banding Laboratory.  This can be easily done online and I believe is a worthwhile endeavor.  Below are photos of the tagged Trumpeter Swans and the certificates.   

   The Trumpeter Swan sighted on May 7 was sighted at the beach at Bluffers Park in Scarborough Bluffs (Toronto), ON.  The one sighted on May 22 was seen along the Grindstone Marshes Trail at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, ON.

CEDAR WAXWING

   Here is a Cedar Waxwing looking straight at the camera, plus two other photos showing some of the field markings.  The photos were taken at Lake Wilcox Park in Richmond Hill, ON.  Note the following for I.D.:

• Black mask with white outline
• Yellow-tipped tail
• Yellow wash on belly
• Small red spot on wing - you can see this on last photo
• Cinnamon crest
  
  
  

ABOVE 3 PHOTOS: CEDAR WAXWING

ANOTHER BIRD PHOTO: NORTHERN CARDINAL

   After posting the photos from Lake Wilcox Park, Sharon and I took our dog Kenya for a walk.  On top of the tallest tree in the neighborhood we spotted a Northern Cardinal.

NORTHERN CARDINAL

BIRD PHOTOS OF THE DAY: ANOTHER VISIT TO LAKE WILCOX PARK

   Sharon and I visited Lake Wilcox Park again today.  Here are some of the birds we sighted and photographed :

• Great Blue Heron
• Eastern Kingbird
• Canada Goose
• Song Sparrow

ABOVE 4 PHOTOS: GREAT BLUE HERON

EASTERN KINGBIRD

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: CANADA GEESE

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: SONG SPARROW

PHOTOS OF THE DAY: LAKE WILCOX PARK, RICHMOND HILL, ON

   Today Sharon and I took Kenya for a walk in Lake Wilcox Park in Richmond Hill, ON.  The park has been around a long time, but had recently been modernized.  Construction is still ongoing, but what had been completed is great.  There are plenty of benches, vieeing areas of the lake and magnificent metal scultures of animals, including many birds.

   

   We sighted and photographed the following birds :

• Tree Swallow
• Eastern Kingbird
• Cedar Waxwing
• Female Red-winged Blackbird
• Mallards
• Ring-billed Gulls

   The Eastern Kingbird was a first for us, so we added it to our Life List, which now stands at 128.

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: TREE SWALLOW

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: EASTERN KINGBIRD

ABOVE 3 PHOTOS : CEDAR WAXWING



FEMALE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: MALLARDS

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ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: RING-BILLED GULLS