Birds in the Neighborhood

Birds in the Neighborhood
Green Heron	This is a selection of birds that we have seen here in the Tarpon Point Marina neighborhood Photos here were gathered from non-copyright web pages, they are not my own photos unless identified as such. The various herons are some of our favorites.	Great Blue Heron
Tri Colored Heron	Yellow Crowned Night Heron	Black Crowned Night Heron
Snowy Egret	Cattle Egret	Reddish Egret
Glossy Ibis	Egrets and Ibis are some of the most common of other wading birds in the hood.	American White Ibis
	We have many birds of prey
Osprey	Red Shouldered Hawk	Bald Eagle
	But other water fowl and waders abound
Common Merganser	There was a pair of hooded mergansers hanging out at the little pond in Tarpon Estates for a couple of weeks last year. We hope to see them again one day.	Hooded Merganser (Male) (Robert Steiner painting)
Wood Stork These large birds can be seen around the lake at Tarpon Gardens most of the winter	Wood Stork	Wood Stork With a face only a mother could love
Brown Pelican	We have not seen a Roseate Spoonbill here in the immediate neighborhood but it is a popular wish-list spotting for birders who visit SW Florida for obvious reasons. Just look... We have seen this bird near Lover's Key State Park and when visiting Sanibel	Roseate Spoonbill
Cormorant	Cormorants and Anhingas are both diving birds that swim and hunt fish. Both birds commonly sit at the waterside and spread their wings to dry them. The anhinga has a pattern that is quite striking the first time you encounter one. We see these in the lake around Tarpon Gardens frequently.	Anhinga devil bird or snake bird
Moorhen or Marsh Hen	This page is still under construction, growing intermittently as I think of new additions.