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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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Snow Geese in Florida

10,000 Birds

Marks National Wildlife refuge in search of water birds – ducks and mergansers in particular. Every year they migrate down to this Gulf Coast protected area, giving me the opportunity to observed Redheads, Hooded Mergansers, scaups, Ring-necked Ducks , and more. I arrived at St.

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