Here is a video of the mythical snipe probing the wet earth for food:
Categories: Bird Festivals, digivideo, Florida, Merritt Island NWR, Space Coast Bird Festival
Archive for the ‘Space Coast Bird Festival’ Category
When you go birding in Florida, frost is not what you expect to have to deal with. Before I headed to Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, I was sent emails regarding the weather. I noticed that the lows were in the thirties with highs in the 50s, but after dealing with -21, I figured [ Read More ]
Categories: Bird Festivals, digiscoping, Featured Post, Florida, Space Coast Bird Festival, St Sebastian River
Well, my adventure in Florida is winding to a close. This morning, I’m packing, starting to deal with email, and sorting photos for blog entries about the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. I have over 1300 to sift through from the festival from beautiful places like scrub oak habitat to unique places like a [ Read More ]
I have so much to blog about the Space Coast Bird Festival, but I’m still here in Florida and birding like crazy. Monday is my final leg of the festival: a pelagic birding trip. Sunday, I had a major breakthrough in my gull identification ability. Part of it was really great teachers (who don’t make [ Read More ]
Categories: Bird Festivals, digiscoping, Florida, gulls, Space Coast Bird Festival
One of the super cool things on display at Space Coast Birding and Nature Festival was an education crested caracara from Audubon Of Florida’s Center for Birds of Prey. The bird was found flailing around on the ground as a fledgling. Examination revealed that the caracara had no wing bones on one side–just a few [ Read More ]
Categories: Bird Festivals, Space Coast Bird Festival
Only in Florida. I just do a a blog entry about never seeing coots in flight and what happens? Tonight I’m driving around Merritt Island NWR and check it out: A coot flies in front of my car. Go figure!
Categories: Bird Festivals, Merritt Island NWR, Space Coast Bird Festival
The painted bunting has long been a nemesis bird for me: I’d go to where it was reported and get someone saying, “Oh, it was just here 10 minutes ago!” And it would never be seen again. I knew Space Coast would be my chance to see one but didn’t want to put forth too [ Read More ]
Categories: Bird Festivals, digivideo, Space Coast Bird Festival
On the off chance anyone needs a cleansing bird, how about a sandhill crane head? Check out that red patch of bare, red skin. Look at the nares (nose hole) you can see right through it, just like you can on a turkey vulture. Those yellow eyes are mesmerizing. You can get so frickin’ close [ Read More ]
Categories: Bird Festivals, digiscoping, Florida, sandhill cranes, Space Coast Bird Festival
I think this male red-bellied woodpecker was feeling what quite a few of us were feeling Tuesday morning at Viera Wetlands (aka Viera Sewage Treatment Facility) during the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. BRRRRRRR (a cold snap has hit Florida creating temperatures in the low thirties with wind chills in the twenties) Br! I [ Read More ]
Categories: Bird Festivals, digiscoping, Florida, Space Coast Bird Festival, Viera Wetlands
UPDATE: THANKS TO MY KNOWLEDGEABLE READERS, THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED! Warning, this post might be a tad gross for some! For others who are a bit like me and love to examine a piece of dead animal…well, this is right you your ally. As I was doing some digiscoping around Merritt Island NWR, I [ Read More ]
Categories: Florida, Merritt Island NWR, Space Coast Bird Festival
