Naples, birds, and beach

A quiet week in Naples. Still no giant influx of seasonal  people yet-shhhhh. As I talked about in a previous post we've jumped into the restaurant scene ahead of the crowd. Made it to Panevino, Nemo's, and O'Mei (fabulous Peking Duck) so far.

A river otter stopped by outside our lanai chewing furiously away on something. They are the most wondrous creatures sleek, playful, and perform ballet moves in the water.

For those of you who are early morning risers, this shortening of daylight is surely making you a bit crazy. Well it is for me anyway. I do get to see some lovely sunrises but getting up in pitch dark to start my morning walk is a bit disconcerting. Daylight savings is going off in a little over a week which will help, but only briefly. The dark short days are descending upon us.

And this is the mystery fish that lives in our canal. Pretty sinister looking I think. I've talked about it in the past and it's still here, actually have seen two, but that second one is elusive. Mark believes its an invasive species as he knows a lot of fish and doesn't recognize this. It might be his duty to catch the beast.

Threatened Wood stork

Ibis

Sandpiper

Egret

Pelican

Plover

Birds, birds, birds. This is just a sampling and most of these, if not all, live here year round. There's a whole other list of birds who only visit for the winter.

Interesting way to move large machinery

A theme for the day?

I wound up on the fishing end this time

Dolphin!

Blissful beach visit this week. Hardly any people, mostly cloudy and mild. Great for me as I'm going for the nature, sketching, photography, and reading. Not a sun worshiper - do they even exist anymore?

Our ugly duck (Muscovy) is back. We feed him once a day and he would happily eat many times a day if we let him. Not sure this a good idea but there it is... And I was briefly worried we were eating this breed but come to find out there's a white duck called Pekin which is used in Peking duck. Relief.