Hey, do you notice anything different? We’ve changed from blogger to word press for blogging software. All the are there and hopefully in the next few weeks as I get used to this we’ll be able to organize things so you can find answers to bird questions easier. If you think of a category [ Read More ]
NOTE: I just noticed on the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival that they have some items that attendees left behind. If you attended the festival, check it out. My final day at the Space Coast Bird Festival in Florida involved a 12 hour pelagic birding trip with the Explorer Fishing Charters. Above is a [ Read More ]
Heads up: I’m going to Guatemala at the end of February. Mike from 10,000 Birds and Patrick from Hawk Owl’s Nest should be there too. Since it sounds like internet access might be iffy while I’m there, Swarovski is going to help me hold a guest blog contest! More details are coming but if you [ Read More ]
I got to debut one of my favorite new birding shirts while at the Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival. Can I say how much I love the shirts at Magnificent Frigatebird? I blogged about some of these shirts around the holidays. I love the sense of humor that the company has and I love [ Read More ]
We take a small break from gulls to talk about a few other species. I have a few more birds to share from our second field trip that we led to Viera Wetlands while at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. One of the funny things was after I got my lifer limpkin earlier [ Read More ]
Alvaro Jaramillo one of the field trip leaders at the Space Coast Birding and Nature Festival speaks on learning to love watchin’ the larids (aka gulls):
Before I went to Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, I listed all the field trips that I would be on and one of them was a gull id workshop at at Tomoka Landfill. See all the gulls in the above photo, that landfill was jam packed with birds! I had a bit of a [ Read More ]
Okay, this post was meant to be about a field trip to a landfill to see gulls and a few other species at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival but I did not realize how many turkey vulture shots I took at the landfill. I never get this close to them where I live [ Read More ]
I’m trying to corral my photos to use in a future post about birding in a Florida landfill (I tell ya’ that Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival takes you to some highfalutin places). Here is a video that I took with my Fuji E900 attached to my Swarovski spotting scope just to give you [ Read More ]
Here is a video of the mythical snipe probing the wet earth for food:
