Babies at Viera

During a Birding Tour last Monday with a client, Susan W., from Scotland, we were treated to seeing, amoung other things, the following: A Juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron, several baby Anhinga, a couple of very young Great Blue Heron youngsters.

The location of our morning tour was the Viera Wetlands near Melbourne, Florida. we arrived about 8:00 AM and spent several hours driving the berms seeing a wide variety of birds. Several of these were "lifers" for Susan. By the way, Susan claims not to be a "twitcher".

After a nice relaxing lunch at the La Bamba II, restaurant in Titusville, we spent the afternoon birding at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Susan was delighted to have a wish come true and witnessed the feeding flights of about a half-dozen Black Skimmers.

Other notable sights included Belted Kingfisher, a Reddish Egret ballet and several Roseate Spoonbills. Her bird list totaled 68 different species for the day.