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 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 …
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 …
This was our first trip to Largo Central Park Nature Preserve. It was a nice, quiet spot, not overly large, and you can get close to the birds. We took the boardwalk around the pond, then took the trail by the creek and around past …
We visited Fort De Soto Park. Birding was not as good as in previous years—the Bay Pier was closed for renovations, the East Tip Turnaround was mobbed with vehicles and people for a kite-surfing festival, and it was very windy. The first of our four …
Our next stop in Florida was Myakka River State Park in Sarasota and we picked up 36 species. We started in the Weir area on the southern part of the lake. Some of the birds we saw were limpkin, black-necked stilt, sandhill crane (two flying …
Our first stop on our Florida birding trip was The Celery Fields in Sarasota. It was also the stop that we counted the most species—45 of them. We started by the Nature Center where some of the birds we saw were boat-tailed grackle, painted bunting, …
We walked in four areas of the refuge this afternoon. The only birds we identified near the Visitor’s Center were turkey vulture and tufted titmouse. Birds seen along the Dike Trail included great blue heron, northern cardinal, belted kingfisher, mallard (pair), Canada goose, and northern …
