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Birding Florida’s Emerald Coast

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I have now officially moved to the Emerald Coast of Florida, a beautiful region on the Florida Panhandle. I am within one of Florida’s sub-tropical zones, and my birding experiences have expanded, with life birds galore. If I approached too closely they scurried away, so I raised my lens to take identification photos.

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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review

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Dorian’s gregarious personality and self-deprecating sense of humor makes even the most meditative sections one of a piece with his birding experiences, producing a good read that may make you think. Plus tales of birding from the point of view of the traveling cyclist. There are also surprises. This is a smartly written book.

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Spotting My First Horned Owl in Veteran’s Park

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All the local birders had seen them, and though I arrived on the Florida Panhandle too late to observe them when they were young, I fervently wished to see them all grown up. Even better, when I raised my binoculars to the pine tree branch, I saw the owl close up, filling the circular frame. Almost the entire family had us surrounded.

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Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White Winners

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Mary, a certified Florida Master Naturalist and serious amateur photographer, recently completed a pilot Audubon birding naturalist certification course. Cliff was raised in the Central Valley of California and discovered a love of birds at 14 when he found a male Vermilion Flycatcher in his yard.

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“Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman

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I don’t really know – from my own experience with school bullies or from Jack London’s novels? Attempting to bluff the bear in believing that they were even bigger bears, Hoshino suggested raising their hands, to appear taller. Florida scrub jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens. How did I know that? Eurasian jay, Garrulus glandarius.

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Plugging Kids Into Birding

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There are quite a few to choose from but some of the better ones include “ Happy Feet “, a film about Emperor Penguins, and “Hoot&# , a great story about saving Burrowing Owls in Florida. I recently took my children -- all 3 of them -- up to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in Florida.

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

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Not only does this make the guide more useful to birders in the southwest and Florida, it also accentuates the possibilities. The excellence of Hawks in Flight is rooted in the expertise, experience and skills of all three authors. It is a good visual summary to the ½-paged detailed discussion.