Pileated Woodpecker:
White Ibis:
Tricolored Heron:
Common Moorhen:
Anhingas drying:
This Anhinga is molting - it lost all its flight features for a few weeks. But it can still dive for fish, and therefore still needs to dry off:
Purple Gallinule:
Pied-billed Grebe:
South Florida is also renowned for its parrots - all of them introduced, but some of them so established that they have big populations living permanently. This is a Blue-crowned Parakeet:
White-eyed Parakeets:
Wood Stork:
Great Egret:
Nature is not all fun and games. Sometimes it's a war zone. The moorhen was picked off by a peregrine falcon, who got about five minutes to munch on it before it itself was chased off by this turkey vulture:
But the story doesn't end there - there are many vultures, and all of them wanted a piece:
Sometimes birds do some people-watching too:
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