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PLANET FRAMED: November 2011
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011. I can't say I've had many psychic dreams before, but something about the ghost orchid. Seeped into me and wouldn't let go. This summer I had the most vivid dream about a ghost orchid, that I had gone hunting for them in Orlando. Funny thing is, in my awake world, I wasn't even sure ghost orchids existed. The morning after my dream, I had no recollection of flowers, until a patron at the library where I work checked out the audiobook version of Susan Orlean's. There's another dr...
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Florida Suncoast Birding: August 2014
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014. Whimbrels on Ft Myers Beach. Tuesday, August 19th. Air of Whimbrels seen at Carlos Pointe, Ft Myers Beach. Location: Carlos Pointe, Ft Myers Beach. Monday, August 18, 2014. Shore Birds of the EAA. Tuesday, August 12th. I could find all of the expected waders including wood storks. And a few shorebirds including Spotted sandpipers, greater and lesser yellowlegs, killdeers, a great many black-necked stilts,. A possible solitary sandpiper and a dozen Long-billed Dowitchers. Monday,...
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Florida Suncoast Birding: Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. Tuesday, July 21st. And I traveled from Ft Myers across the state to Palm Beach County to visit Loxahatchee NWR. We were twitching today to find a lifer. I had dipped on finding a Smooth-billed Ani. Several times, but we knew about the highly reported pair of these birds being seen by many birders on the Marsh Trail at Loxahatchee. And today they were cooperative. Smooth-billed Ani on the Marsh Trail. A couple Solitary Sandpipers. In a few wee...
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Florida Suncoast Birding: Year List - 2016 (277)
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Year List - 2016 (277). YEAR LIST 2016 - (277). Muscovy Duck - Florida. 7 Great Blue Heron. 9 Little Blue Heron. 48 American White Pelican. 98 Florida Scrub Jay. 113 Salt Marsh Sparrow. 125 Lesser Black-backed Gull. 128 Great Black-backed Gull. 156 Black-bellied Whistling Duck. 174 Great Horned Owl. 187 Black-throated Green Warbler. 193 Great Crested Flycatcher. 196 Northern Rough-winged Swallow. 197 Great White Pelican. 202 Common Hill Myna. 205 Black-throated Blue Warbler. 207 Cape May Warbler. Florida...
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Florida Suncoast Birding: Life List
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Calling it my world list, even though I've never left the country,. Because of the inclusion of exotics. Exotics or non-ABA countable. Ducks, Geese, and Swans. Muscovy Duck (feral) *. Partridges, Grouse,. Indian Peafowl (feral) *. Bitterns, Herons, and Allies. White Ibis x Scarlet Ibis hybrid *. Hawks, Kites, Eagles, and Allies. Rails, Gallinules, and Coots. Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and Allies. Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers. Auks, Murres, and Puffins. Parakeets, Macaws, and Parrots. Lilac Amazon Parrot *.
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Florida Suncoast Birding: Migration
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Monday, August 3, 2015. Monday, August 3rd. A FOS Yellow-throated Warbler. Seen at Bunche Beach Preserve. Neotropical bird migration is slowly rolling into Southwest Florida. Today I feel lucky with seeing my first-of-season Hooded Warbler. At Six-mile Cypress Slough Preserve. Master Birder Vince McGrath spotted the hoody for our group. Last week I had seen my FOS Black-and-White Warblers. A couple of Short-tailed Hawks. Have also returned to the Six-Mile Slough Preserve from central Florida. Earlier in ...
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Florida Suncoast Birding: August 2015
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Monday, August 31, 2015. Monday, August 31st. I visited Bunche Beach Preserve from 9 am till 10 to take advantage of a rising tide and to look for Black and Common Terns. Black terns usually show up in our corner of Florida just before Labor Day and today we found at least six at Bunche. Was also able to add a first-for-the-year, for me, Common Tern. Plus a few Royal Terns. And a few lingering Least Terns. What a great venue! A Photo Gallery of Today's Birds. Least Tern, wearing its winter plumage. We th...
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Florida Suncoast Birding: December 2014
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014. Snowy Owls were irruptive last winter. Many Florida birders headed up to Jacksonville to see this young owl. I failed to make a trip, therefore I missed adding it as a year bird for 2014. Photo provided by Bob Pelkey. Other Species I failed to add this year included - -. Year List - 2014. 2014 Year List (311). 1 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck,. 10 American Wigeon,. 47 American White Pelican. 51 Great Blue Heron. 54 Little Blue Heron. 58 Green Heron,. 73 Cooper's Hawk,. 192 La Sa...
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flowers: July 2011
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Native Gardening] FL Native Orchid Blog Updates - New Ghost Orchid Photo and More. I have updated my Florida native orchid blog with quite a number of new posts, including new photos of the Snowy Orchid (Platanthera nivea), the Ghost Orchid (Dendrophylax lindenii), and the debatable invasive African Spotted Orchid (Oeceoclades maculata). Http:/ flnativeorchids.blogspot.com. The Florida Native and Naturalized Orchid Site. Http:/ www.flnativeorchids.com. Reply via web post. Start a New Topic. I am contacti...
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Florida Suncoast Birding: April 2015
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Monday, April 13, 2015. Spring Migration Has Stalled. Cuban Anole seen at Six-Mile Cypress Preserve. Monday, April 13th. Spring migration has come to a screeching halt. We had a very nice land-fall a couple of weeks ago, but weather patterns have largely pushed the migrates to the west of Florida. Even a visit today by the Calusa Bird Club to the migrate hot spot at Fort DeSoto, in Pinellas County, as reported by Vince McGrath, only yielded a couple of passerine migrants. And lots of Gray Catbirds. This ...