Orlando Wetlands Park, 10/22/2011

Common Yellowthroat

My son and I had a commitment this morning, so I was unable to go birding this morning.  However, since we were in East Orlando anyway, we dropped by Orlando Wetlands Park before coming home.  It was 12:30pm before we got there, so we didn't have prime birding weather, and my son is not much of a birder, so we walked fast and stopped little.  My son seemed to enjoy kicking fire ant mounds more than anything else.  So this was more a father-son thing than a birding-photography thing.  Anway, I saw nothing out of the ordinary today, but I wasn't expecting to be able to go at all, so it was all good.  And, I think I captured my best photo of a male Common Yellowthroat.

Palm Warlber

Purple Gallinule

Little Blue Heron

Viceroy

Here's a list of what we saw today:

Non-Birds
Monarch Butterfly
Viceroy Butterfly
Gulf Fritillary Butterfly
White Peacock Butterfly
American Alligator
"Cow Killer" Wasp
Fire Ants

Birds
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck X
Pied-billed Grebe X
Wood Stork 2
Anhinga 2
Great Blue Heron X
Great Egret X
Snowy Egret X
Little Blue Heron X
Tricolored Heron X
Cattle Egret 1
White Ibis X
Glossy Ibis X
Black Vulture X
Turkey Vulture X
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 2
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Purple Gallinule 1
Common Gallinule X
American Coot X
Sandhill Crane 4
Belted Kingfisher 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Blue Jay 2
Fish Crow X
Carolina Wren 1
Common Yellowthroat X
Palm Warbler X
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Swamp Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal X
Red-winged Blackbird X
Common Grackle X
Boat-tailed Grackle X