Seeing shorebirds by the seashore in St. Augustine
Roger Simmons,
They are so many shorebirds found in Florida that it’s often hard for me to tell them apart. Fortunately that wasn’t the case back in mid-April during my weekend in St. Augustine.
On an Easter morning visit to St. Augustine Beach, adjacent to the Anastasia State Park beach, I came across some pretty recognizable shorebirds: terns, plovers and pelicans, to name a few.
A large swath of the beach dunes were roped off for shorebird breeding, though I wasn’t able to see any in that area. But I was happy to be able to photograph these shorebirds.
Royal Tern, St. Augustine Beach, April 2025.Immature Royal Tern, St. Augustine Beach, April 2025.Royal Tern, St. Augustine Beach, April 2025.Least Tern, St. Augustine Beach, April 2025.Least Tern, St. Augustine Beach, April 2025.Wilson’s Plover, St. Augustine Beach, April 2025.Banded Wilson’s Plover, St. Augustine Beach, April 2025.Banded Wilson’s Plover, St. Augustine Beach, April 2025.Brown Pelicans, St. Augustine Beach, April 2025.Sanderling, St. Augustine Beach, April 20265Laughing Gulls, St. Augustine Beach, April 2025.Laughing Gull, St. Augustine Beach, April 2025.
When I visited the Orlando Wetlands on the first day of 2023, I didn’t know that spur-of-the-moment trip would launch me into a new hobby. But seeing all the different birds at the Wetlands that sunny and gorgeous New Year’s Day got me to start paying closer attention the the…
Here’s a hodgepodge of photos from August trips to the UCF Arboretum, as well as Joe Overstreet Road and Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area in Osceola County.