Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge

How An American Oystercatcher Ruined A New Pair Of Pants

By |2023-11-22T17:10:48-07:00November 6th, 2020|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Birds, Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Today's post is about an American Oystercatcher image taken in 2009 at Egmont Key in Pinellas County, Florida and the story behind it.

Use of Decoys for Colonial-nesting Seabirds and the Need for Protected Nesting Areas

By |2022-03-10T21:15:22-07:00July 2nd, 2015|Categories: Birds, Black Skimmers, Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge, Egmont Key State Park, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Gandy Beach, Least Terns, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

On an extremely hot April day I was out on Egmont Key for a Florida Master Naturalist class and from a distance I thought I saw some Black Skimmers and Least Terns resting on a beach but they turned out to be decoys.

Please Take Nothing But Pictures Leave Nothing But Footprints

By |2024-03-14T15:44:53-06:00July 3rd, 2014|Categories: Birds, Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Ospreys|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

The Fourth of July is just a day away and soon many campgrounds, parks and beaches will be filled with people celebrating and sadly leaving trash behind.

Our Willets have returned

By |2021-04-25T08:45:01-06:00April 9th, 2014|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge, Egmont Key State Park, Florida, Pinellas County, Utah, Willets|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Yesterday for the first time this season I saw and heard Willets on Antelope Island State Park.

American Oystercatchers in Florida

By |2020-11-06T04:43:37-07:00September 25th, 2012|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Birds, Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge, Egmont Key State Park, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I don't get to see or photograph Oystercatchers here in Utah but I still dream about these shorebirds and can hear their calls when I look at the thousands of images I took of them.

Fish Crows – Why I Can’t Dislike Them

By |2024-02-22T07:15:56-07:00August 13th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge, Egmont Key State Park, Fish Crows, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Gopher Tortoises, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I was going to do a simple post about this image of a Fish Crow with a young Gopher Tortoise in its bill that was taken on Egmont Key State Park (also Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge), an island located just to the west of Fort De Soto, Florida.

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