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Christmas Bird Count

Header Image: Sandhill Cranes Hoo-H-Hoo-Hoo-Hoo. Hoo-H-Hoo-Hoo-Hoo. Softer than one would expect for a relatively large bird. Distant. Distinct. “Great Horned Owl!”, Gini exclaimed in the darkness. It was now about an...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: american goldfinch, american kestrel, black-and-white warbler, blue-headed vireo, brown-headed nuthatch, carolina chickadee, carolina wren, cattle egret, christmas bird count, downy woodpecker, eastern bluebird, eastern meadowlark, hermit thrush, house wren, palm warbler, pine warbler, red-bellied woodpecker, ruby-crowned kinglet, white-eyed vireo, wood duck, yellow-rumped warbler, yellow-throated warbler

Scouting Outing

Header Image: Purple Gallinule ‘Tis the season. Each year around Christmas, birders across the land scatter to assigned sectors before dawn to listen for nocturnal birds and, once the sky has...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: american kestrel, bald eagle, chipping sparrow, christmas bird count, eastern bluebird, loggerhead shrike, osprey, palm warbler, purple gallinule, red admiral, red-shouldered hawk, savannah sparrow, white ibis, white-eyed vireo, wood stork

Blissful Bucolic Balm

Header Image: Tricolored Heron “Ah-choo!” “Bless you.” Gini and I sneezed our way through the first two weeks of December. Intense testing, analyses and expert medical opinions told the sad tale....

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: black-and-white warbler, blue-headed vireo, bridgewater, bur-marigold, ceraunus blue, downy woodpecker, house finch, northern cardinal, tenoroc fma, tricolored heron

Red-shouldered Hawk

Header Image: Red-shouldered Hawk We were quite fortunate yesterday to have the opportunity to observe an immature Red-shouldered Hawk as it scouted for, located and consumed a meal. The bird constantly...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography

Finding The Extra In The Ordinary

Header Image: Northern Waterthrush It was a day similar to other days. The sun rose. So did we. Ate breakfast. Read mail. Ate lunch. Accomplished chores. Ate supper. The sun set....

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american bittern, american kestrel, blue-gray gnatcatcher, carolina chickadee, cooper's hawk, eastern phoebe, goldenrod, grasshopper sparrow, house wren, liatris, narrowleaf sunflower, northern waterthrush, pine warbler, primrosewillow, red saddlebags, red-shouldered hawk

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