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Tag: Summer Tanager

Feature: Sawgrass Lake Park Pt. II

Feature: Sawgrass Lake Park Pt. II

September 26, 2018December 23, 2019 Bob Pelkey Leave a comment

Back at the main parking area at Sawgrass Lake Park Tom Obrock and I chose to follow the birders seen earlier. We would learn that the trees along the entrance to the park had warblers dripping off of them in preceding days. That was not so apparent initially, but waves of warblers did eventually pass […]

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Feature: Sawgrass Lake Park Pt. I

Feature: Sawgrass Lake Park Pt. I

September 19, 2018December 23, 2019 Bob Pelkey Leave a comment

It required a single visit to Sawgrass Lake Park in Pinellas County to consider it one of my favorite wildlife venues in Florida. Sawgrass Lake Park, north of downtown St. Petersburg and southwest of Tampa, was created primarily to manage stormwater flooding in the adjacent city of Pinellas Park. A small waterfall in fact could […]

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POLL: Should a “Lights Out” program be enforced to save migratory birds?

POLL: Should a “Lights Out” program be enforced to save migratory birds?

June 1, 2017February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 5 Comments

Imagine arriving to work and finding nearly 400 dead birds on the ground. That’s precisely what happened at the American National Insurance building in Galveston, Texas, on May 4, 2017. In a single night, hundreds of migrating birds slammed into the side of the skyscraper. All but three found on the ground died. The birds […]

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Fort De Soto Park Spring Migration: Pt II

Fort De Soto Park Spring Migration: Pt II

May 12, 2016December 23, 2019 Bob Pelkey 1 Comment

Warbler activity is not confined to the food bearing vegetation in the southern region of Fort De Soto Park.           The Scarlet Tanager above (image 1) was photographed at Fort De Soto Park in April 2016. After a near full morning of birding the bottom half of Mullet Key, Tom Obrock […]

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Lake Mills Park

Lake Mills Park

April 30, 2015December 23, 2019 Scott Simmons Leave a comment

It’s been forever since I posted on my blog–terribly long. I had my camera equipment stolen in early March, which took me a bit out of commission, but I have most of it back now, so I’m back in the swing of things, though I haven’t done any blog posts at all in April. Anyway, […]

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