We walked the boardwalk around the lake first. 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, the same place as …
We covered most of the eastern part of the Wetlands today including Wetlands Blvd, Night Heron Lane, Bobcat Trail, Cypress Boardwalk, Osprey Blvd, Bald Eagle Blvd, and Limpkin Lane. On the south side of Bald Eagle Blvd, we were treated to seeing a male vermillion …
For the second part of our trip to Merritt Island NWR today, we drove around East Gator Creek. We walked a little bit at first but then we decided to drive around the road. The highlight was seeing at least 50 white pelicans. Some of …
We mainly walked along the following trails: Wetlands Blvd, Night Heron Lane, Bobcat Trail, Cypress Boardwalk, and Osprey Blvd. The highlight of the was was seeing about 20 roseate spoonbills from the boardwalk. Other birds seen included wood stork, limpkin, American anhinga, sandhill crane, blue-winged …
We walked around the pond first, then we walked the trail by the creek and golf course. We saw many birds in these areas including boat-tailed grackle, yellow-crowned night heron, common gallinule, double-crested cormorant, limpkin, purple gallinule, white ibis, muscovy duck, tricolored heron, anhinga, pied-billed …
We started our Florida bird trip in Myakka River State Park. The first stop was Stop 16 near the bridge over the Wild and Scenic River. Some of the birds we identified there were red-shouldered hawk (pale South Florida phase), roseate spoonbill, red-bellied woodpecker, common …
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 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 …
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 …
