The Little Nuthatch

What a lovely morning to be off work. It was warm and breezy. There were birds singing everywhere. The Red-headed Woodpecker appears to be nesting in the dead pine that the Kestrel likes to sit on, today they were both there, I wonder if they mind one another? I also spooked a couple of Bob White's, sorry to spook them but it's hard to see ground birds when you are too busy looking up! Most of those little warblers and such are so high up in the trees. I had my first sighting of Northern Parula in the yard. Northern...

I saw this couple of Red-shouldered Hawks and I was wondering how you could tell the difference between the male and female. Apparently the only identifying factor is that the female is larger than the male. So who knows...

The Horned Grebe is the star of the show this Winter at Black Point Wildlife Drive. And I love them!! They are the cutest thing! They also tend to dart underwater for long periods of time and pop up elsewhere in the waters, which can be suspenseful and sort of fun to watch (if you don't mind waiting around).

More and more butterflies and flowers popping up, birds building nests all over the place. Spring is coming!

This morning I was lured outside by a Brown Thrasher outside the window. It was the first one I'd seen in the yard here so I went to check it out. Surprisingly it seemed to be building a nest as it was going about with sticks and there was a lot of ruckus in the palmetto bush. This brought me to taking a walk. There is a dead pine in the neighbors cow pasture that the American Kestrel likes to sit on so I took a look with my binoculars and then this little one flew in: My first Red-headed...