Category: Florida Birding Trip
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Florida Birding Trip Day 3: Colts, Pelicans, & Girls Making Photos
Today we leave West Palm Beach and begin our travels through the Florida Everglades towards the Florida Gulf Coast. Our first stop of the day is at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in Boynton Beach. As we were walking down a path, a family of Sand Hill Cranes emerged from the side of the road and…
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Florida Birding Trip Day 2: We’re Going On an Owl Hunt!
We met up early this morning to travel to Green Cay Nature Center and Wetlands. There are 100 acres of created wetlands, and we could not appreciate the great diversity and scale of what was waiting for us when we first stepped out onto the boardwalk. There is a luscious quiet about the wetlands, sprinkled…
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Florida Birding Trip Day 1: Pivot!
Today we drove to West Palm Beach where we will meet up with Loren Fisher and the workshop participants. As we made our way south and then east, we passed massive sugar cane fields with road signs warning of smoke and fog impairing visibility. We had no idea that sugar cane is set alight before…
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Florida Birding Trip: The Wild of Springs & Prairies
We relished our days spent in the Florida countryside, including visits to some local nature areas and taking in the sights. Our first visit was to Fanning Springs State Park. This quiet area is on the Suwannee River, with turquoise blue springs and meandering boardwalks through the forest and above the swamp, safe from alligators.…
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Florida Birding Trip: Planning, Prep & Farm Adventures
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes & ears, as close to us & everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?” David Attenborough Art and I enjoy photographing birds; we like the variety and trying to capture them doing bird things like singing, flying, eating, chasing and preening.…
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