Sanibel is beautiful. While biking home from the library yesterday, I saw a COHA cirling above the houses. Then, further down the road, I glanced into the mangroves and saw two Roseate Spoonbills dabbling around in the mangrove muck! They were so beautiful, and it was cool to watch them forage. My uncle's house, where I'm staying has some mice (but not deer mice thank god), and the no-see-ums come out at night. So, paradise takes some work (I've gotta pick up some traps, and maybe a fine mesh mosquito net for sleeping), but it's so wonderful to be back in the tropics with the warm breezes and blue ocean. It really makes me miss Hawaii though, being so close yet so far.
Bird list so far: NOCA, WEVI, BRPE, XXTE, COHA, Anhinga, Roseate Spoonbill, Common Grackle, XXWA (Prairie Warbler perhaps?), Great Blue Heron, Little Blue Heron, SNEG, Fish Crow, BAEA, OSPR, WILL, Red-bellied Woodpecker.
Also, while in CT I saw Tufted Titmice. My life list is slowly growing.
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