Birds, Words, Pics + TV
Take a cloudy, rainy day and add in some black-and-dark-gray male Sail Kites, and your get an incredible landscape to photograph.
That’s the opportunity that presented itself when I visited Osceola County looking for endangered Snail Kites. I was going to call off the attempt because of the poor weather, but I am glad I didn’t.
Seeing these birds on an overcast, drizzly day added a moody feel to the photos. When the sun did pop out, I was also able to get some photos of the kites feeding.
I drove almost 2 hours to a preserve in Hillsborough County to see my Eastern Bluebird. Little did I realize there was a family of Eastern Bluebirds about 15 minutes from my house at the UCF Arboretum.
It’s more colorful at the Orlando Wetlands with the return of pink Roseate Spoonbills and the arrival of blue-and-white Tree Swallows
Overall, there were shore birds I expected to see and some other birds that I was a bit surprised to find so far away from the mainland.