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.