I went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club. There were about 25 of us in the group. Our first stop was the south side of the Indian River Inlet. It was near high tide so there weren’t many birds in the inlet …
We spent the second half of the day back at Largo Central Park Nature Preserve for the third time in the last five days. We took mostly the same trails as before along the boardwalk around the pond and then the trail by the creek …
This was our first visit to Eagle Lake Park in Largo. The park is big and it has two lakes, what I call the North Lake and the South Lake. The South Lake area was much better for birds. Some of the birds we identified …
Our second stop in Palm Harbor today was Wall Springs Park. We walked along several trails including a climb to the top of the observation deck. Some of the birds we saw included little blue heron, brown pelican, bald eagle, osprey, great blue heron, white …
Our first stop in Palm Harbor today was John Chesnut Sr. Park. We birded in two areas of the park. The first area started by the boat ramp and we walked along the boardwalk (including the tower) to where it ended, then we turned around. …
This was our second trip to in three days to Largo Central Park Nature Preserve. We took mostly the same trails along the boardwalk around the pond and then the trail by the creek and around past the golf course to the shortcut to the …
We went to Honeymoon Island State Park and birded in three areas. The first stop was the Nature Center area. The tide was very low but some of the birds we identified included American white pelican, tricolored heron, yellow-rumped warbler, red-breasted merganser, killdeer, roseate spoonbill, …
We went to Hammock Park for our second trip of the afternoon. We hoped to find the barred owl that was reported here but we didn’t see it. Instead, we identified American robin, yellow-rumped warbler, gray catbird, American crow, pileated woodpecker, Carolina wren, blue-gray gnatcatcher, …
The first park we went to this afternoon was Weaver Park. There were several birds in the industrial plant pond area behind the fence. We found double-crested cormorant, osprey, great egret, mallard, white ibis, lesser scaup, snowy egret, Bonaparte’s gull, turkey vulture, little blue heron, …
After our morning trip to Largo, we spent part of the afternoon walking along the Dunedin Causeway from near the hotel by Alt.19 to just over the far end of the bridge. We also walked through a small park on the south side of the …
