Visit to Jekyll Island

Last Summer I visited Jekyll Island in Georgia where I had the opportunity to see and photograph the Boat-tailed Grackle for the first time.

Boat-tailed Grackle (M)

Boat-Tailed Grackles - Spec.Name: Quiscalus Major

A large, long-tailed blackbird, the Boat-tailed Grackle is found exclusively along the Gulf and Atlantic coast of the United States. The noisy, iridescent, purple-black male is hard to miss when it displays on power lines and telephone poles. The smaller brown female is much less conspicuous, and might even be mistaken for a different species.

Boat-tailed Grackle (F)

I saw them picking pieces of bread, pop corn and other left overs at the picnic areas. After a short Summer shower, these Grackles wade and take baths in the puddles to refresh themselves.

Great Audience for a bad Comedian

Laughing Gull, Spc.Name: Larus Atricilla

A smallish gull with a black head, the Laughing Gull is abundant along the southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Infrequently found away from the ocean, it takes advantage of human habitat modifications, foraging in parking lots and dumps, and breeding on dredge spoil islands. As their name describe, this birds have a call that sounds very much like laughter.

• The Laughing Gull is normally diurnal, being active during the day. During the breeding season it forages at night as well. It usually looks for food along the beach at night, but will also hover to catch insects around lights

• Nests in marshes, on beaches, and on islands along coast.
• Found along coasts, in estuaries, bays, and inland lakes.
• Feeds along the ocean, on rivers, at landfills, and in urban parks

Laughing Gull

Who'da hooded bird?

Red-headed Woodpeckers (Melanerpes Erythrocephalus) are beautiful and strong birds, excellent flyers, they fly very fast and sometimes do acrobatics to sort out any obstacles on their path. As all woodpeckers this specie has a large strong beak capable of boring holes in tree trunks.

Red-headed Woodpecker

His head and neck is bright red, the underbody is white, the body is black as well as the wings. this bird in not very common but it is not endangered specie, their territory is kind of limited.

Not very often they go to feeders to eat but when they do the hang upside down to do it.

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They are monogamous birds and usually fly in pairs, they tend their eggs and chicks with much care. They are not migratory birds.