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Personally, I enjoy boobies and early birds.

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Originally Posted by mulligan (Post 451466)

Personally, I enjoy boobies and early birds.

Men. :icon_wink:

I travel between TV and Wisconsin in all seasons and it seems that there are many more song birds in Wisconsin in the summer than any season in TV. Maybe it has to do with migration patterns, the obvious heat in a FL summer and probably most important, all the anti-bug spraying that goes on in TV and golf courses. We live on a course, near trees, and our FL feeders never get the attention that our WI feeders draw. Or, maybe our seeds aren't Southern enough for the little critters.
Last summer there was a nesting family of horned owls in one of the Lake County villages and more than ocassionally a bald eagle would perch on the light poles in a Winn-Dixie parking lot "decorating " the unsuspecting cars parked below. I assume it was the one nesting somewhere in the Orange Blossom area and could be seen fishing the Hill Top and Mira Mesa lakes.:coolsmiley:

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Originally Posted by jebartle (Post 451426)

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I'm thinking that your beautiful bird is a magnificent juvenile bald eagle.:a040:

There's a pair of Great Horned Owls in the tall oak trees near the De La Vista Golf Course. Can hear them almost every evening.

My favorite Florida bird is a Sand Hill Crane. I love them! Occasionally we get a few in our back yard from the golf course and I'm always delighted. It's like having Unicorns. Well, you get my drift!

The Village Birders

Here is the Village Birders website.
The group is very active and has very infomative meetings and outings.
The Village Birders

Saw this on the way to breakfast

I took this photo on the way to breakfast at Tierra Del Sol for breakfast. These birds were right out in front. I think that they are Great Blue Heron. This photo was taken with my phone, not the best resolution.

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those are sandhill cranes

Also don't forget morning doves.

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Originally Posted by mikeod (Post 451448)

Saw a beautiful hawk standing in the rough near the 4th green at Amberwood yesterday afternoon. Since I was walking the course, I was able to get within about 20 feet of it and it never moved. It was strange because it just stood there while we went by, looking right and left, but not moving. Looked like a red-shouldered hawk from the chest color and size.

During our LSV in 2006, we were driving on Odell toward Morse and saw a bald eagle flying low toward us. We almost stopped the car to watch that majestic bird glide by. That was before the tornado in 2007 that ripped through the eagle preserve and damaged their nesting areas. Haven't seen one since.

There are still many bald eagles in TV. Saw one hovering over St. Charles a few weeks ago. I also know a friend who had new babies in a nest on her property.

Duffysmom, It is a red tailed hawk. (I think)

Wildlife Information

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Originally Posted by Jim 9922 (Post 451507)

I'm not from Wisconsin, so I can't comment about that state. However, the thing that struck me was the number of what I consider the most prolific singer in the bird family: the mockingbird. We had them up north in New Jersey and Michigan but not nearly as many as down here. Except during the hottest days of the summer, these guys fill the air with their beautiful song. I will agree that the number of varieties of songbirds here is limited relative to the parts of the North that I am familiar with.

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Originally Posted by Barefoot (Post 451629)

My husband calls them "Pterodactyls"!! LOL! :ohdear: