Showing posts with label birding in Florida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birding in Florida. Show all posts

Roadside Attractions

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In January 2010 I took daughter Phoebe to Florida for The Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival . We did a number of speaking gigs at ...

Angry Birds

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The new Nature's Classroom facility at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. I was down in the Florida panhandle a while ago, helping to o...

St. Marks Morning

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It's been a wild few weeks here at Bill of the Birds international corporate headquarters. Apologies for the mostly unavoidable dead air...

ID Quiz Winner: Birds on a Wire

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Left to right: Loggerhead shrike, boat-tailed grackle, mourning dove, Eurasian collared-dove. And the winner IS..... Oggie. Who correctly id...

ID Quiz: Birds on a Wire

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Location: A residential neighborhood in Miami, Florida Date: March 30 Yes these birds are in silhouette (sorry) and yes they represent fou...

Bankable Lifers?

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Indian hill myna On a recent quick trip to South Florida, I was shown two new, but currently uncountable, life birds. The Indian hill myna, ...

When the Birding Gets Slow

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Phoebe and I made a bunch of appearances at middle schools in north Brevard County near Titusville as part of the Space Coast Birding & ...

Ruddy Winter Turnstone

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Ruddy turnstone in winter plumage. This afternoon, while frolicking on the beach at Cape Canaveral National Seashore with daughter Phoebe, I...

Changing Places

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Daughter Phoebe and I have migrated south to Florida for a few days of giving birding talks at schools in and around Titusville as part of ...

Migrating South with a Phoebe

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We've had snow for most of the last month at Indigo Hill. Later this month I will be getting onto an airplane with my red-headed daughte...

Moment of Zen: Preening on the Beach

thumbnail Doesn't it feel great when you get everything in the right place after a good preen? This mixed flock of gulls, terns, and shorebirds go...

Mystery Shorebird: Knot or Not?

thumbnail While spending a morning last week on the beach on Sanibel Island, Florida, I was seeing the usual shorebird suspects: willets, sanderlings,...

I Missed a Bird (and I Liked It!)

thumbnail What IS this bird? Hint: It's NOT a northern harrier. Earlier this week I flew down to Fort Myers, Florida to give a couple of presentat...

White Ibis Sunset

thumbnail On my final trip around the Black Point Wildlife Drive at Merritt Island NWR near Titusville, Florida, I was standing along the road with a...

Photographing Tree Swallows in Flight

thumbnail Have you ever tried to do something that you knew was next to impossible and yet you could not stop yourself from trying anyway? On my rece...

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