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conte s sparrow and i heard calls in three places sounded looked like ammodramus calls i suspect that s what they were but i only got my eyes on one and i didn t see it long enough to be sure the area was loaded with swamp and savannah sparrows as well as sedge and marsh wrens common yellowthroats and palm warblers were also abundant my first sparrow of the morning was a surprising white crowned sp post a comment read more savannah sparrow get link facebook x pinterest email other apps december 23 2016 savannah sparrow savannah sparrows are so common in the winter time here it s easy to overlook them sometimes though they pop up and pose so nicely they re hard to ignore they re pretty smart looking sparrows in the mornings you can find them along the fence lines on canal st my favorite sparrow spot in seminole co this december canal st has been pretty slow i ve found one lincoln s sparrow there but apart from that i ve just seen savannah swamp and song sparrows so far not even a white crowned has shown up i keep checking the area though in the hopes that something more rare will appear one of these days a white throated sparrow will show up here i know it savannah sparrow post a comment read more south florida birding 12 3 2016 get link facebook x pinterest email other apps december 21 2016 western spindalis earlier this month a friend and i chased a thick billed vireo in south florida at bill baggs state park in miami we were enticed by the possibility of both seeing that bird and seeing a western spindalis as well both birds had been seen within 50 feet or so of each other so we made the four hour trek down to miami and staked out both birds the western spindalis was the first to show herself the thick billed vireo showed up around 11am we all had some pretty good looks at it even though it was only for a few seconds before it took off into the woods again unfortunately it appears that sighting was the last time anyone saw it there it seems to have moved on thick billed vireo from there we decided to check out a few other rarities we chased a western tanager at miami dade college we missed that bird but we had a flyover cave swallow which was a lifer for me we then headed down to castello hammock park to look for a buff bellied hummingbird post a comment read more polk county kingbird roost 11 12 2016 get link facebook x pinterest email other apps november 13 2016 western kingbird yesterday afternoon i drove out to polk county to a kingbird roost about 1 5 hours from my house both western kingbirds and scissor tailed flycatchers have been regularly reported there over the last few weeks i arrived around 4 30 and within about 10 minutes or so the western kingbirds started flying in i counted about 8 of them before a kestrel came by and dispersed them as it got close to 5pm i started to worry that the scissor tailed flycatchers may be perching on a set of wires outside of my field of view so i started driving around the area and sure enough 4 of them were with another group of about 10 western kingbirds i m uncertain how many of those kingbirds i d seen before the kestrel dispersed the first group i saw but i believe there were at least 12 in all pretty easy and fun birding and i must say that area of polk county is quite beautiful western kingbird the first group of western kingbirds i saw had the d post a comment read more lark sparrow at lake apopka 11 5 2016 get link facebook x pinterest email other apps november 08 2016 lark sparrow on saturday i drove out to the lake apopka wildlife drive to see a lark sparrow that had been found there the day before it was seen near the gate area so i didn t do the whole drive i just walked up and down lust rd until i finally saw the lark sparrow lark sparrow while waiting for the lark sparrow to show up i also saw a field sparrow which also is a bit unusual in central florida to my knowledge neither bird was seen the next day though people did photograph a clay colored sparrow in the same general area field sparrow post a comment read more swamp sunflowers at marl bed flats get link facebook x pinterest email other apps october 16 2016 swamp sunflowers shortly after i moved down to florida i heard about the beautiful swamp sunflowers that bloom in late september and early october at marl bed flats however i ve never remembered to go visit while they were blooming i m always too early too late or i forget all together earlier this week however i made it there while they were still blooming swamp sunflowers swamp sunflowers swamp sunflowers post a comment read more anhinga with fish get link facebook x pinterest email other apps october 02 2016 anhinga with fish back in august i visited lake apopka and found an anhinga right after it speared a fish giving me lots of opportunities for photos this one is my favorites because the fish looks completely surprised to be having such a bad day post a comment read more baltimore s inner harbor get link facebook x pinterest email other apps october 01 2016 baltimore inner harbor at the end of august i was in baltimore and i stayed in the marriott my window overlooked the inner harbor i love photographing the baltimore skyline and i ve never been able to photograph it from this angle i arrived at night and took a few pictures before going to bed then the next morning i took a few more in the daytime baltimore inner harber baltimore city post a comment read more yellow warbler get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 30 2016 yellow warbler during late august and september yellow warblers come through lake apopka in huge numbers it s not terribly unusual to conservatively estimate 30 or more individuals along the lake shore i suspect this is largely because there are so many willows near the lake shore and the drive takes you right between the willows and the lake i think they re beautiful birds a few weeks ago i was driving along the drive next to the lake and i saw a few all in one tree i pished a little bit and then all of the sudden there were at least 10 there i don t know that i ve ever seen so many yellow warblers in any one place this was my best photograph from that time post a comment read more common myna get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 28 2016 common myna florida city cracker barrel i had a meeting in miami last week and i ve never seen a common myna so i decided to drive a half hour farther south than my meeting to visit the cracker barrel at the end of the florida turnpike i d been told that s pretty much a guaranteed spot to find them it took about 15 minutes before i saw about 15 of them on the power lines behind the cracker barrel that was a lifer for me well worth the extra hour of driving to locate the bird on my way back home i dropped by some of my favorite south florida birding locations to see what i might be able to add to my florida year list i ended the day with 8 new florida year birds including 2 lifers one countable common myna and one not mitred parakeet i was slightly irritated that on my way back through miami i stopped to get gas guess what bird i saw fly right by me common myna figures but i wouldn t have been able to get a photo of that bird like the one i g post a comment read more mead gardens 9 19 2016 get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 27 2016 cape may warbler last week i drove out to mead gardens hoping to see a wilson s warbler that had been photographed there the day before unfortunately it either moved on or hid from me the whole time i was there but that s to be expected thankfully a few days later another wilson s warbler showed up at central winds park right near my home and i got to see that one i had two consolation prizes at mead though first and beautiful cape may warbler was extremely cooperative with me posing for pictures and everything yellow bellied flycatcher and second i was able to get my first presentable photos of a yellow bellied flycatcher that had been hanging out here for the last couple days i ve only seen three of these in florida and they ve always been pretty difficult for me to photograph but this one flew very close to me these photos could certainly be improved with better light and background but at the very least they are photos post a comment read more slideshow of lake apopka get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 22 2016 wildlife of lake apopka over the last few days i ve put together some of my favorite photos from lake apopka and assembled them into a video slideshow lake apopka has become one of my favorite places to visit so much wildlife and so much diversity my video is about 7 minutes long that s a little longer than i i intended but i don t know how to make it shorter post a comment read more photographing waterfalls with small equipment get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 10 2016 muddy creek i visited western maryland in late july and i had a lot of fun visiting my all time favorite park swallow falls state park i visited the park twice on one day i went to the main park entrance and walked the trails inside the park on the second day i walked a trail on the other side of the youghiogheny river when i lived in maryland i wasn t a birder so i wondered what kind of wildlife might be in the park i was not disappointed as there singing warblers all over the park including pine hooded black throated green and black throated blue warblers common yellowthroat and northern waterthrush in florida i never get to hear thrushes sing and it was wonderful to hear veeries wood thrushes and hermit thrushes as well the biggest highlight was my first ever winter wren muddy creek falls swallow falls but when i was out birding i also wanted to take photographs of the falls and cascades along muddy creek and the youghiogheny river som post a comment read more boonie falls get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 04 2016 trail to boonie falls last week i was on vacation at deep creek in western maryland and in the mornings i would visit swallow falls state park which has some absolutely beautiful waterfalls i came home to florida wanting more but well this is florida i ve known of a small falls along the florida trail in the little big econ state forest but i ve never gone to see it those that have often joke about how small it is but i decided i had to go see for myself the waterfall is called boonie falls and it can be accessed by parking in the grass next to lockwood blvd in oviedo there is hardly any signage and so you have to know where it is in order to find it but i made the half mile walk to the falls a nice little pond you can almost see the walk out there was prettier than i anticipated i arrived at 5 30pm so the sun was still a little to high for photographing trees but i took a few shots with my point and shoot anyway just post a comment read more recording video of waterfalls get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 01 2016 a few months ago i purchased a point and shoot camera the canon powershot g7x i wanted to be able to quickly take photos of landscapes while i m out birding without having to carry two dslrs or switch lenses i had very little desire to take video with the camera however it s very easy to do so lately i ve taken some short videos just see if i could make something interesting last week i was up in maryland and i took 20 second videos of all the scenes i photographed then i put them together as short movies with background music i visited patapsco valley state park in baltimore and swallow falls state park in western maryland i love the photos i took of these parks but when i put together the video footage i was pleasantly surprised to find that they seemed a bit more interesting when i returned home i figured i would visit a waterfall in my home county it s nothing like what i can visit in maryland it s tiny and not very pict post a comment read more markham woods tract scenery get link facebook x pinterest email other apps june 27 2016 markham woods tract hdr well 2016 is the last year of the 2nd breeding bird atlas for florida bba2 the first one began in 1986 and lasted for 5 years this second one began in 2011 i became involved in 2013 and it s been a wonderful way to motivate me to get out into nature during the hot months of may june and july this being the last year of the survey we re focusing on certain strategic areas we use the u s geological survey quad maps and we divide each map into six blocks the 6 block of each quad is an area where we want to concentrate so i ve spent a fair amount of time at the markham woods tract of the wekiva springs state park since that s in the 6 block of the sanford sw quad i ve been here a few times before but i ve never concentrated on the area because it seems like other areas are just a little bit better for finding wildlife markham woods tract however i ve been there quite frequently this may and jun post a comment read more virginia opossum with young get link facebook x pinterest email other apps may 29 2016 opossum with young opossum with young yesterday morning i drove out to the lake apopka wildlife drive it s one of my favorite places for birding and i was hoping to photograph a yellow breasted chat that had been located there the day before i heard two calling and singing in different places but neither was interested in coming into view so i could get his photo still it was a fun drive my favorite moment though had nothing to do with birds i saw an opossum walking towards me at first i thought it had some sort of deformity it looked like it had a growth coming out the left side of its head but as it came closer i noticed she had 4 little ones clinging on to her because one was covering her eyes i think she was more concerned with her young than with me so i crouched down and remained motionless to let it get closer when it came closer than my camera could focus i backed up she seemed totally unconcerned with me until i st post a comment read more more posts powered by blogger all photos and text are property of scott simmons and may not be used without permission scott simmons visit profile get updates with substack raptors bald eagle red shouldered hawk swallow tailed kite snail kite osprey turkey vulture black vulture warblers worm eating warbler louisiana waterthrush northern waterthrush black and white warbler common yellowthroat american redstart cape may warbler northern parula magnolia warbler bay breasted warbler blackburnian warbler yellow warbler blackpoll warbler chestnut sided warbler black throated blue warbler palm warbler pine warbler yellow rumped warbler yellow throated warbler prairie warbler black throated green warbler yellow breasted chat sparrows bachman s sparrow grasshopper sparrow henslow s sparrow le conte s sparrow saltmarsh sparrow nelson s sparrow chipping sparrow clay colored sparrow field sparrow white throated sparrow white 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