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Fort Desoto Park

Birding with St. Pete Audubon–Shorebirds at Fort Desoto Park

March 6, 2010

Shortly after 8 a.m. this morning I found myself standing out on the rather chilly mud flats at Fort Desoto County Park with members of the St. Petersburg Audubon Society, hoping to learn about shorebirds. For a novice, shorebirds are incredibly challenging to identify. But with the assistance of experienced birders I found myself quickly [...]

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An Evening Walk at Fort Desoto Beach

July 16, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
Had my nose to the grindstone all day, but managed to finish up some client work that wraps up a long project. I needed to get out of the house so I drove out to Fort Desoto Park for an evening walk.  Snapped a few photos.
I feel much more relaxed [...]

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Camping in Florida? Get in Line.

April 8, 2009

From time to time I’m going to feature guest blog posts here on BlogTheBeach.com.  My friend Maria Ferraro is my first guest poster. I’ve been suggesting for a while how nice it would be if she would send me a story about one of her camping adventures with her significant other, Neil. Here’s a good [...]

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Fort Desoto’s North Beach is for the Birds

November 28, 2008

Fort Desoto County Park is one of the Nation’s top birding locations. In addition to having lots of permanent resident bird species, many migratory species stop by the park on their way to other more exotic locations.
On Thanksgiving Day we took a drive out to Fort Desoto Park–it’s only 30 minutes from our house–and took a walk [...]

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