A collection of my bird and nature photos
Category: <span>Pinellas County</span>

Category: Pinellas County

Birding at John S Taylor Park: Featuring a Pied-Billed Grebe (1/30/25)

We walked the path around Taylor Lake. This path was mostly along the shoreline but it went through some wooded areas as well. Birds we saw included ring-billed gull, pied-billed grebe, green heron, American anhinga, white ibis, American coot, blue-gray gnatcatcher, palm warbler, common gallinule, …

Birding at Largo Central Park Nature Preserve: Featuring a Yellow-Crowned Night Heron (1/30/25)

First, we walked the boardwalk around the lake. After that, we took the trail along the creek around and across the golf course. There were three yellow-crowned night herons in their usual spot along the boardwalk between turns one and two. Nanday parakeets and monk …

Birding at Sand Key Park: Featuring an American Oystercatcher (1/26/24)

We walked along the beach behind the park from the inlet jetty to the high-rise buildings. Some of the birds we saw included royal tern, least tern, sandwich tern, Forster’s tern, semipalmated plover, anhinga, American oystercatcher, ruddy turnstone, willet, black-bellied plover, western sandpiper, sanderling, brown …

Birding at Largo Central Park Nature Preserve: Featuring a Purple Gallinule (1/26/24)

As we did two days ago, we walked around the pond first, then we walked the trail by the creek and golf course. Birds we saw today included purple gallinule, common gallinule, yellow-crowned night heron, anhinga, white ibis, tricolored heron, limpkin, great blue heron, monk …

Birding at Eagle Lake Park: Featuring a Tricolored Heron (1/24/24)

We walked around the South Lake. There were a lot of birds but not many different species. Birds that we identified included white ibis, laughing gull, tricolored heron, anhinga, common gallinule, turkey vulture, double-crested cormorant, yellow-rumped warbler, blue-gray gnatcatcher, pied-billed grebe, belted kingfisher, and red-shouldered …