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Ospreys of Honeymoon Island State Park

By Mia McPherson|April 6th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Florida, Honeymoon Island State Park, Ospreys, Pinellas County|Tags: adult, birds of prey, bokeh, breeding season, depth of field, female, Fish Hawk, flight, flying, male, mated pair, nest, Osprey, Osprey Trail, ospreys, Pandion haliaetus, perched, raptors, sexual differences|

Honeymoon Island State Park in Pinellas County, Florida is a great place to see and photograph nesting Ospreys, not just one or two nests either, there are often quite a few.

Wonderful Lifers – Williamson’s Sapsuckers at their nesting tree

By Mia McPherson|June 1st, 2014|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Williamson's Sapsuckers|Tags: adult, ants, aspen, blind, coniferous forests, excavation, female, forest, lifer, male, Montana, mountains, nest, nesting cavity, nesting tree, photographing, sap wells, sapsucker, sapsuckers, secretive species, sexual differences, Sphyrapicus thyroideus, squeal call, tree, Williamson's Sapsucker, woodland birds, woodpecker, woodpeckers|

I could barely contain myself because in my viewfinder was a gorgeous red, yellow and black colored male Williamson's Sapsucker.