Gliding high overhead the swallowtail kite used to be a rare sight over Solivita. This year a pair of these large, graceful birds stayed much longer than the usual three days to a week. After seeing them now and then over several months this spring, I’m convinced we have a breeding pair that have nested [...]
I became a bird watcher when we moved to Solivita. This retirement community offers ample opportunities to see and photograph herons, egrets and a great variety of birds. The great blue heron became a challenge for me. They seem a bit more wary than the egrets and storks and definitely more of a challenge to [...]
A number of times while we were out playing golf, we’ve seen majestic bald eagles Here’s a photo of the most recent one we saw. Several times we’ve seen them with fish that they’ve caught or that they took away from another bird that caught it. We saw two eagles with a fish that they’d [...]
