GREAT EGRET IN BREEDING PLUMAGE, EAGLE LAKES COMMUNITY PARK, NAPLES, FL

   The Great Egrets in the first two photos are in breeding plumage.  You can see the long plumes on them.

 

BREEDING COMMON GALLINULE, EAGLE LAKES COMMUNITY PARK, NAPLES, FL

OSPREYS IN FLIGHT, EAGLE LAKES COMMUNITY PARK, NAPLES, FL

   The two Ospreys are probably a mated pair.  There nest is shown in the last photo.

BLACK-NECKED STILT, EAGLE LAKES COMMUNITY PARK, NAPLES, FL

BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK & AMERICAN COOT, EAGLE LAKES COMMUNITY PARK, NAPLES, FL

   The duck on the right in the first photo is a Black-bellied Whistling-Duck.  The bird in the the foreground on the left is an American Coot.  Most Ameican Coots have a white bill and a red frontal shield.  However, mostly in the south, occasionally a male American Coot has a white frontal shield.  This seems to be the case for this bird.

   In the second photo the duck on the left is a Black-bellied Whistling-Duck.  We couldn't ID the species on the right.

NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, VERONAWALK, NAPLES, FL

MALE NORTHERN FLICKER, VERONAWALK, NAPLES, FL

   We can ID this Northern Flicker as a male by its black malar stripe.