Adult Little Blue Heron - Belle Isle

There has been am adult Little Blue Heron hanging around Belle Isle for the past week plus. A really beautiful bird. Since I have been at the reservation we have only had immature birds. The large crowds of Egrets and Herons have started to build in numbers, around 60-100 birds each morning.

Babies & Migration

The shorebirds are starting to trickle in, meanwhile a number of our local breeding species are well on their way into fledgling their first broods.

                                                 Short-billed Dowitcher flock

                                                            Least Tern with chick

                                                           Piping Plover chicks

                                                            Male Scarlet Tanager

                                          Red-tailed Hawk with baby Grackle

                                                           Least Sandpiper

                                                      Short-billed Dowitcher

                                                                 Green Heron

More biiiiirds

                                                             Baby Wild Turkey

                                                Fledged Juvenile Great Horned Owl

                                                                           Willet

                                                        Eastern Kingbird fly catching

                                                               Salt  marsh Sparrows 

                                                                      Snowy Egret

                                                          Yellow Warbler nest

Lots of catching up

Sorry I have been slow on editing pictures, work has been busy. Lots of Coyotes around, including some cute pups !

                                                              Dad Coyote

                                                                   Mom Coyote

                                                                     Male Kestrel

                                                            Female Hummingbird

                                                                Glossy Ibis

                                             Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird

                                                 Female Snapping Turtle laying eggs

                                                                          Pups