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Fakahatchee ferns

Archives for September 2020

Purple gallinule

purple gallinule

Bird Identification      ( Florida Species )      

Florida’s most beautiful waterbird is the purple gallinule, found year-round in fresh water marshes in the Florida peninsula.

Red-winged blackbird

Red winged blackbird

Bird Identification      ( Florida Species )      

One of the most distinctive sounds you’ll hear in a Florida marsh is the call of the red-winged blackbird, particularly when there are a large flock of them.

Roseate spoonbill

Roseate spoonbill feeding its chick

Bird Identification      ( Florida Species )      

There’s no mistaking the roseate spoonbill, with its bright pink plumage and distinctive shovel-shaped beak. Usually seen in pairs or large groups, they feed on mud flats.

Sandhill crane

sandhill cranes

Bird Identification      ( Florida Species )      

Tall, distinctive birds that you’ll see everywhere in the Florida peninsula, sandhill cranes mate for life and travel in pairs or as a family.

Sawgrass Lake Park

Footpath leading through ferns

St. Petersburg      ( 27.83891, -82.66777 )      1.9 miles

Explore a maple swamp and an oak hammock on a pair of family-friendly loops along boardwalks and footpaths that lead to a tower on Sawgrass Lake

Silver Palm Trail

Clumps of coastal vegetation on Bahia Honda Key

Bahia Honda State Park  |  Florida Keys
( 24.664931,-81.257121 )      0.6 miles

CURRENTLY CLOSED. Along the Silver Palm Trail at Bahia Honda State Park, you’ll meander through the largest grove of silver palms (Coccothrinax argentata) in the United States

Snakes on a Trail

Diamondback rattlesnake on pavement

September 25, 2020    John Keatley

One week, three venomous snakes, and many harmless ones: all encountered on our early morning bike rides along paved trails on cool mornings.

Spring to Spring Trail

Cyclist headed along bike path into forest

East Coast Greenway  |  DeLand
( 28.8668, -81.3144 )      21.2 miles

A paved bike path to link Volusia County’s major springs, the Spring to Spring Trail provides a growing network of trail and park connectivity

Spring to Spring Trail Central

Cyclist riding uphill on paved trail in scrub forest

Spring to Spring Trail  |  DeBary Orange City DeLand
( 28.9909, -81.3380 )      7.0 miles

Ride this surprisingly hilly bike path through tunnels of live oaks and Florida scrub-jay habitat while marveling at the beauty of the St. Johns River bluffs near Blue Spring

Spring to Spring Trail South

Curve in paved trail under oaks

Spring to Spring Trail  |  Enterprise DeBary
( 28.8668, -81.3144 )      7.7 miles

Linking Green Springs to Gemini Springs to Lake Monroe, the southern portion of the Spring to Spring Trail is also an important link in the Florida Coast to Coast Trail

Sunken Gardens

Flamingo feeding at Sunken Gardens

St. Petersburg      ( 27.790007,-82.63789 )      

One of Florida’s oldest roadside attractions, Sunken Gardens is now a county park showing off more than a century’s worth of botanical bounty in St. Petersburg

White ibis

Flock of white ibis

Bird Identification      ( Florida Species )      

Called curlew by native Floridians, the white ibis is a wading bird that tends to browse and travel in flocks. It is one of the more common wading birds you’ll see in Florida.

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