The Great Florida Beachwalk is a campaign to make people aware that Florida’s beaches are NOT covered in oil. They are clean and healthy. The idea was to assign each mile of Florida’s 825 miles of sandy beaches to a volunteer, who would show up Saturday morning, walk the mile of beach, take a photo […]
It’s looking like user fees are coming to Fort Desoto County Park. In the face of declining tax revenues Pinellas County is having a hard time keeping the park open and staffed, so they are going to be asking those of us who use the park to chip in a little extra. Extra, meaning above […]
When most people think of rays, they think of stingrays that sit quietly on the bottom and wait to be stepped on. But cownose rays are a lot easier to see than stingrays because they often swim in large schools near the surface of the water. They will swim up and down the beach during […]
I spent Saturday morning birding at Fort Desoto Park with the friendly folks of the St. Petersburg Audubon Society. We were looking for shorebirds, which turned out to be in short supply. So we turned our attention to having a look for the Brown-crested flycatcher that has been reported in the north beach area for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
