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Space Coast Birding Festival

Annual Space Coast Birding Festival Brings the Best of the Best to Florida

February 11, 2010

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
The 13th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival was my first birding festival. I attended the full week and my daily schedule was packed with classes, field trips, keynote presentations, and daily visits to the exhibit room to meet vendors and meet birders. The whole experience exceeded my expectations.
The [...]

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Binoculars and Spotting Scopes Tempt Visitors to the Space Coast Birding Festival

February 10, 2010

If you are entertaining the idea of buying a new pair of binoculars or a spotting scope, the Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival is definitely one of your best opportunities to do so. The advantage to attending the Festival is that you can try out the entire line of binoculars, spotting scopes and all [...]

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Gull Watching with Alvaro Jaramillo at the Space Coast Birding Festival

February 2, 2010

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
There are two really good places to watch gulls: the beach and the dump.
On this particular morning during the Space Coast Birding Festival we went to the dump on a field trip led by gull expert extraordinaire Alvaro Jaramillo of Field Guides. I shot this short video during our visit.
If [...]

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People I Met at the Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival

February 1, 2010

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
I met lots of great folks at the 13th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. I learned a lot about nature and birds from everyone. I thought it would be fun to introduce you to some of the personalities at the Festival, so I’ve created the short video clip [...]

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Birding by Ear and Habitat

January 30, 2010

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
My alarm clock went off at 4:05 this morning. I was to meet Paddy Cunningham-Pascatore and the rest of our group for a pre-sunrise Space Coast Birding Festival field trip in the bird-rich Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge (MINWR).
It was pitch black when I arrived in the parking lot of [...]

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13th Annual Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival Offers Something for Every Nature Enthusiast

January 29, 2010

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
Not all activities at the Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival are outdoors. Much of the festival takes place in the Exhibition Center in the Gymnatorium at Brevard Community College. Vendors who serve the birding community showcase what they have to offer.
Thursday afternoon I had a couple hours of free [...]

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A Scrub Jay Adventure at the Space Coast Birding Festival

January 28, 2010

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
I first met the friendly scrub jays when I went on a camping trip to Oscar Scherer State Park in Sarasota as a kid. These beautiful jays have no fear of humans. Since they are so habitat-specific, few people get to see them. I became reaquainted with this species this [...]

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Gull Identification Practice–At the Dump!

January 28, 2010

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
After our class on gull I.D. at the Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival we headed over to the Brevard County Landfill and rode a bus to the top of “Mount Brevard,” as it was called by Erin from Brevard’s Solid Waste facility who escorted us to the top of [...]

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A Closer Look at Gulls with Alvaro Jaramillo

January 28, 2010

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
I started my Wednesday morning with about 20 gull enthusiasts in a class presented by gull expert Alvaro Jaramillo.  He started out with the gulls most of us are familiar with–Herring, Laughing, and Ring-billed–and showed us what to look for when trying to identify a gull.
Gulls species can be a [...]

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Weather Looks Good for Space Coast Birding Festival

January 25, 2010

As of today, the 10-day forecast on weather.com for Titusville, Florida looks great. This is a relief after several weeks of sub-Florida temperatures that had most of us huddled indoors in disbelief.
If you are driving to the Festival on Tuesday, you should encounter mostly sunny conditions in the upper 60’s in Florida. By Friday, daytime [...]

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