We spent this mild February day in six areas of the refuge. Near the Visitor’s Center, we identified Carolina wren, red-winged blackbird, fish crow, and a flock of snow geese overhead. Some of the birds we identified at Raymond Pool were northern shoveler, great blue …
We walked along the south side of Gordon’s Pond Trail to a point beyond the observation deck near the next bench. The following birds were identified along our walk: song sparrow, great blue heron, American black duck, turkey vulture, white-breasted nuthatch, brown-headed nuthatch, Carolina chickadee, …
We birded from the parking lot to the beach and back. We hoped to find a short-eared owl at the end of the afternoon but we didn’t see one. Along the beach closer to the dunes, the highlight was several snow buntings and horned larks …
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 …
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, …
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, …
