My trip to Clearwater was pretty tightly scheduled with a mixture of work and fun, but I did have a few hours to myself when I first arrived, and took a short walk along the beach to see what birds I could see. Of course, I was armed only with my phone, so no super-zoomed shots, but I was able to fairly confidently identify most of them.
The two boat trips also yielded some shots - mostly of the cheeky birds trying to steal the fishing catch (or the offcuts from the fileting process).
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| At least one laughing gull, others could be Franklin's, double-crested cormorant (TR) |
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| Boat-tailed grackle (male TL, female BR), ruddy turnstone (TR & BL) |
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| Terns: royal (large with orange beak) and Forster's (smaller) |
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| Willet (TL), sanderling (right) and nanday parakeets |
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| Left picture with zoomed region is a group of white ibis - hard to see from photo, but live the beaks were distinct (and distinctive). Right pictures are roseate spoonbills. |
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| Brown pelicans - huge but impressively graceful. |
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| A great egret (TL and BR), and a pair of snowy egrets (TR & BL) |
Very good result from a short walk!
ReplyDeleteYes - it was perhaps a mile down the beach (and the same back of course) but quite productive!
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