Clearwater Beach Area - December 2023

We were lucky to spend a few days before Christmas in Clearwater, Florida! I spent every morning enjoying surrounding parks including Fort De Soto, Largo Central Park, and John Chestnut Park as well as Honeymoon and Caladesi Islands. I was so grateful to the Clearwater Audubon Society for connecting me with a kind and knowledgeable birder named Steve, who spent a half-day introducing my daughter and me to some of the incredible parks and birds in the area. It was an amazing way to end the year and I was excited to add 30 birds to my life list. Be sure to take a look at the videos at the end as well! One shows how small some of these beautiful shore birds actually are, and I was delighted to capture a video of an armadillo on Honeymoon Island!

Alligator
Alligator
American Kestrel
American Kestrel
American Kestrel
American Kestrel
American Oyster Catcher
American Oyster Catcher
American Oyster Catcher
American Oyster Catcher
American Oyster Catcher
American Oyster Catcher
American Oyster Catcher
American Oyster Catcher
Brown Pelican and American White Pelicans
Brown Pelican and American White Pelicans
Brown Pelican and American White Pelicans
Brown Pelican and American White Pelicans
American White Pelican
American White Pelican
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Anhinga
Belted Kingfisher
Belted Kingfisher
Belted Kingfisher
Belted Kingfisher
Black Skimmer
Black Skimmer
Black Vulture
Black Vulture
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Boat-tailed Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Cattle Egret
Cattle Egret
Common Gallinule
Common Gallinule
Common Gallinule
Common Gallinule
Common Ground Dover
Common Ground Dover
Common Ground Dove
Common Ground Dove
Common Ground Dove
Common Ground Dove
Double-crested Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Duck Hybrid
Duck Hybrid
Mottled Duck
Mottled Duck
Duck Hybrid
Duck Hybrid
Dunlin and Ruddy Turnstone
Dunlin and Ruddy Turnstone
Fish Crow
Fish Crow
Fish Crow
Fish Crow
Forster's Tern
Forster's Tern
Forster's Tern
Forster's Tern
Forster's Tern
Forster's Tern
Forster's Tern
Forster's Tern
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Great Egret
Great Egret
Great Egret
Great Egret
Great Egret
Heron
Heron
Laughing Gull
Laughing Gull
Laughing Gull
Laughing Gull
Least Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Limpkin
Limpkin
Limpkin
Limpkin
Limpkin
Limpkin
Limpkin
Limpkin
Little Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Marbled Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Marbled Godwit and Willet
Marbled Godwit and Willet
Marbled Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Monk Parakeet
Monk Parakeet
Monk Parakeet
Monk Parakeet
Mottled Duck
Mottled Duck
Mottled Duck
Mottled Duck
Nanday Parakeet
Nanday Parakeet
Nanday Parakeet
Nanday Parakeet
Nanday Parakeet
Nanday Parakeet
Nanday Parakeet
Nanday Parakeet
Nanday Parakeet
Nanday Parakeet
Nanday Parakeet
Nanday Parakeet
Nanday Parakeet
Nanday Parakeet
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Mockingbird
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler
Pied-billed Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Reddish Egret
Reddish Egret
Reddish Egret
Reddish Egret
Reddish Egret
Reddish Egret
Reddish Egret
Reddish Egret
Reddish Egret
Reddish Egret
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Ring-billed Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Roseate Spoonbill
Roseate Spoonbill
Roseate Spoonbill
Roseate Spoonbill
Royal Tern
Royal Tern
Royal Tern
Royal Tern
Royal Tern and Black Skimmer
Royal Tern and Black Skimmer
Royal Tern
Royal Tern
Royal Tern and Laughing Gull
Royal Tern and Laughing Gull
Ruddy Turnstone
Ruddy Turnstone
Ruddy Turnstone
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Sanderling
Sanderling
Sanderling
Sanderling
Sanderling
Sanderling
Sanderling
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Short-billed Dowitcher
Short-billed Dowitcher
Short-billed Dowitcher
Short-billed Dowitcher
Short-billed Dowitcher
Short-billed Dowitcher
Snowy Egret
Snowy Egret
Snowy Egret
Snowy Egret
Snowy Egret
Snowy Egret
Tri-colored Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse
White Ibis
White Ibis
White Ibis
White Ibis
White Ibis
White Ibis
White Ibis
White Ibis
Willet
Willet
Willet
Willet
Willet
Willet
Willet
Willet
Willet
Willet
Willet
Willet
Wood Stork
Wood Stork
Wood Stork
Wood Stork
Wood Stork
Wood Stork
Wood Stork
Wood Stork
Wood Stork
Wood Stork
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
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