Sanibel Wildlife Drive

Sunday 25th
A chilly Sunday morning beach walk took me past a European Starling, two Collared Doves, Boat-tailed Grackles and a pair of House Sparrows. On the beach a flock of Laughing Gulls with a few Ring-billed Gulls among them. The Willet were still there and the Brown Pelicans are always a joy to watch.
We then did the Wildlife Drive at Ding Darling on Sanibel. The weather was clear, full sun and in the high sixties. The breeze was either very light or non-existent.
We saw a lot of birds with some that we had not seen before on this trip.
American Crow - flew over,called which is the only way of telling it from a Fish Crow
American White Pelicans
Anninga
Black-bellied Plover
Black Vultures
Brown Pelican
Cattle Egret
Dunlin
Eastern Screech Owl (as before in the same tree)
Gray Catbird
Great Blue Heron
Great White Egret
Hooded Merganser
Little Blue Heron
Osprey
Pied-billed Grebe
Reddish Egret
Roseate Spoonbill
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalmated Plover
Snowy Egret
Spotted Sandpiper
Tree Swallows
Tri-coloured Heron
Turkey Vultures
Willet
Yellow Crowned Night Heron

We searched for a Short-billed Dowitchers but without success.
We saw no mammals, but there were small black Tree Frogs.
The forecast for tomorrow is cloudy with some rain, but nevertheless we are going to Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary for the day.