Palm Warbler - Dendroica palmarum are lovely, lovely little warblers that I see regularly in South Florida, by comparison with other warblers in the USA they are not the most colourful, but compared to the warblers of the UK and Europe they are positively exotic. This morning I returned to what is my "local patch" when I am here. The Broward County Audubon Society mention West Lake Park as the "Park with no birds", but I dont know where they have been looking because I find it teems with birds! At dawn the weather was dire and it was less than the usual 70 degrees and wet, hardly the best photo conditions. I went out without great expectations, I needn't have worried. My tally included Blue Jay, Yellow Bellied Sapsucker, Palm Warbler, Pied Billed Grebe, Red – bellied Woodpecker, Common Yellowthroat and some interesting close ups of Turkey Vultures. Then later this evening I saw much the same as well as a very interesting close up view of a small hawk. I was creeping towards a Palm Warbler when I decided, and I don't know why, to look upwards and there, at the top of a ten foot tree was a hawk, probably a Sharp Shinned Hawk.
Turkey Vulture
Red-bellied Woodpecker





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