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These Are The Good Old Days

Header Image: Atlantic Coast Sunrise Sleepless nights were common for me about a week before Gini and I were married. Tossing and turning. Worry. Will I really be able to support...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: a max brewer bridge, american alligator, black skimmer, black-bellied plover, blue-winged teal, caspian tern, dunlin, gator creek, great egret, green heron, laughing gull, marbled godwit, merritt island nwr, mottled duck, northern flicker, northern shoveler, osprey, redhead, ring-billed gull, roseate spoonbill, ruddy turnstone, sanderling, sunrise, tricolored heron

Drive-By Birding

Header Image: Lake Shore When is the best time to go birding? Early in the morning. Or – When the birds are feeding. Or – During migration. Or – Late in...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american alligator, american kestrel, common grackle, common ground dove, eastern bluebird, glossy ibis, moonflower, pied-billed grebe, tenoroc fma, white ibis, yellow-rumped warbler

Testing — Testing

Header Image: Snail Kite “BBQ!” Ribs or chicken? “Chicken!” Almost dark but as it’s winter it wasn’t late. Dinner time, as a matter of fact. Since I forced Gini to accompany...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: lake parker park, osprey, snail kite, snowy egret, white ibis, wood stork

Beach In Winter

Header Image: Sandbar With Pelicans and Shorebirds Mid-January. Cold front scheduled in a couple of days. Where to go birding? If you happen to be native Floridians who love to bird-watch,...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: american white pelican, bunces pass, dunlin, forster's tern, fort de soto park, great egret, lesser scaup, little blue heron, loggerhead shrike, osprey, red-breasted merganser, reddish egret, royal tern, sanderling

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

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