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Only Nine Days Until the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival!

10,000 Birds

Herons and raptors and rails and gulls and ducks and cranes and jays and owls and alligators are all awaiting me – and you – at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. I fly in to Orlando early Tuesday morning and I will immediately head west to Tampa in search of these two countable exotics. You are going, right?

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Lesbian Parakeets? Nanday Parakeets in Florida

10,000 Birds

On my first day in Florida for the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I landed at Orlando International Airport at about 9 AM, deplaned, waited for my luggage, got my rental car, and drove west. Petersburg, which is where I was headed after dipping the Bar-tailed Godwit north of Tampa. Wait, west? I never got to St. Petersburg.

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