YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, SUGDEN REGIONAL PARK, NAPLES, FL

   Finally success in seeing and photographing the Yellow-breasted Chat.  It has been reported to be at Sugden Regional Park by ebird alerts for the past couple of weeks.  We have been there several times and didn't sight it..  Today we finally saw it and managed to get a good photo.

   The Yellow-breasted Chat is easy to identify with it white "spectacle", its bright yellow throat and breast and its stout bill.  This is probably a female, as the bill is not the black of a male.

   The Yellow-breasted Chat is considered to be a Wood-Warbler evev though it looks very different than other Wood-Warbler species.  It is larger than other warblers and has a stout bill unlike other warblers.

   The Yellow-breasted Chat is a new species to our Life List, which now stands at 264.

NONBREEDING SANDERLING, NAPLES BEACH, NAPLES, FL

BROWN PELICAN IN FLIGHT, CITY DOCK, NAPLES, FL

NONBREEDING RUDDY TURNSTONE, NAPLES BEACH & NAPLES PIER, NAPLES, FL

FEMALE BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE, EAGLE LAKES COMMUNITY PARK, NAPLES, FL

   We can ID this bird as a female Boat-tailed Grackle from its long tail and the rufous color underneath and of is head.  The female Common Grackle does not have this rufous color.  Also the grackle was hanging around with a male Boat-tailed Grackle.

BREEDING MALE BLUE-WINGED TEAL, EAGLE LAKES COMMUNITY PARK, NAPLES, FL

PIED-BILL GREBE, EAGLE LAKES COMMUNITY PARK, NAPLES, FL

   This is the time of year when Pied-billed Grebes molt from nonbreeding plumage to breeding plumage.  This grebe has the whitish bill with black ring and  more prominent white eyering of the breeding grebe, but not yet the black neck of the breeding grebe.