Back to Erie County, Pennsylvania for pre-Halloween and Halloween, featuring fall content at Presque Isle State Park from last weekend:
Happy Fall
Prairie Warbler(s) & Other Birds
The end… until next time.
More birds at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park on Key Biscayne, Florida, 3 October 2026:
The state park is a great spot for Prairie Warbler. This is a juvenile/female:
This is the first ever BirdingPI.com sighting/pictures of Painted Bunting, in this case a lovely green female/immature:
Interestingly, this bird shows up as “sensitive” on eBird, meaning the reported location isn’t publicly displayed, for conservation purposes. Perhaps to thwart miscreants from attempting to catch the much more exotically colored males for pets.
Great sighting of Anhinga a.k.a. Snake Bird swimming in the Cape Florida Channel (ocean). It really is startling to see it poking up like a snake!
This is another warbler, a beautiful Northern Parula:
Coming up tomorrow, back to Erie County, Pennsylvania, at least temporarily.
In the ‘Swamp’ (2)
To be continued…
More American Alligator, this time at the Gator Park nature show:
And misc. nature from around the Gator Park facilities and parking lot:
Finally, a quick stop at Shark Valley, featuring the first ever BirdingPI.com digital photographs of a White-eyed Vireo (peeking out through a bush):
In the ‘Swamp’ (1)
To be continued…
Atmospherically, guess it makes more sense to switch over to a nice outing in the Everglades on 2 October 2026, at the amazing Gator Park:
Female or immature Anhinga:
Great Egret @ foraging behavior:
Wild female Alligator + juveniles:
Mostly Peafowl
To be continued…
Except where otherwise noted, today’s post on BirdingPI.com features lovely Indian Peafowl (wild/feral) at Crandon Park, Key Biscayne, Florida, earlier in October:
At the Beach (4)
To be continued…
Back to Miami Beach, Florida, both the actual beach and ‘around town,’ featuring a beautiful male Boat-tailed Grackle:
Finally, a very cute duo of Sanderling:
SEFL ‘not birds’
Previously on BirdingPI.com…
Today, we’re picking things up again with our intrepid explorers Lisa and James, the following year:
To be continued…
And in nature content, back to Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park on Key Biscayne, featuring “not birds:”
2 Sandpipers, etc.
Quick post today on a recent sighting of a great fall (migratory) bird, Pectoral Sandpiper, at Lake Melvin/Flag Park in Fairview Twp, Pennsylvania:
At the Beach (3)
Back to Miami Beach early the morning of 29 September 2026:
ID note on Sandwich Tern: adults have yellow/clear-tipped beak; juveniles have black beaks. (Juvenile on left in above picture, adults on right.)
LBH
Back to Key Biscayne (outside Miami, Florida) earlier this month, at Crandon Park, featuring a great sighting of lovely Little Blue Heron:
Hard to tell scale from the shots above, but here’s the LBH in the background by the road, relative to an Egyptian Goose in the foreground (= smaller than Canada Goose):
And a handy artist’s rendition in comparison to the much larger Great Blue Heron. (Note that LBH and GBH are in different genera, the former of which includes smaller herons and certain egrets.)
[Editor’s note: the white bird is a White Ibis.]