Seeing a little Bald Eagle eaglet and a Red-tailed Hawk were two of the highlights of my recent trip to Lake Apopka.
Category: Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive
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Peregrine Falcon in flight at Lake Apopka
The falcon decided to swoop down from a powerline in search of a meal from the ducks and coots in one of the ponds.
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Circle of life: Breakfast with Peregrine Falcon
Yards in front of my car, a Peregrine Falcon swooped down and grabbed a Common Gallinule, taking the bird to the top of a power pole for breakfast.
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Why Central Florida is a birding paradise
With some much geographic diversity, no wonder there’s so much birding diversity in our region.
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Rewarding mid-morning visit to Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive
This visit was going to be much later than my usual early morning trips to LAWD. I wasn’t sure what I might find there at mid-morning.
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Appreciating Lake Apopka’s road to recovery
The variety of birds and other wildlife that you can see at Lake Apopka is pretty amazing, especially considering its sorry state just a few years ago.
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Finding ducks, other birds at Lake Apopka
I went to Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive hoping to see some early migrating warblers, but I settled for photographing some other pretty birds.
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Focusing on Barn Swallows at Lake Apopka
The Barn Swallows at Lake Apopka usually hang out around a bridge where they nest. Sometimes they might sit on a railing or a nearby bush.
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Summertime along Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive
The 11-mile drive is a great place for birding, and that includes during the dog days of summer.
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Swallow-tailed kites: Eating in the air and on the go
These striking black-and-white raptors fly to Florida in the summer from South America. To paraphrase an old Delta Airlines commercial, these birds love to fly and it shows.