Parks & Nature Connection
Parks & Nature Connection – a monthly series learning about Florida’s awesome flora and fauna! What I love about my job as a Recreation Program Specialist is connecting people to […]
Parks & Nature Connection – a monthly series learning about Florida’s awesome flora and fauna! What I love about my job as a Recreation Program Specialist is connecting people to […]
When you find a great spot around Florida’s freshwater or coastal areas to hang out for a while watching birds’ free dive or spear for a meal, it is a […]
My husband and I volunteer to survey and tag horseshoe crabs, and I have to admit the first time I held one, it was really strange. But once the initial […]
During my travels exploring the estuaries, I came across two species of snails; Marsh Periwinkle and the Mangrove Periwinkle. Marsh periwinkles feed on the algae collected on the blades of […]
There is beauty along the brackish waters, the Carolina Sea Lavender (Limonium carolinianum). This Florida native plant is a slow-growing plant and blooms in the latter part of the summer months. […]
At the beginning of September, I enrolled in one of the courses offered at Cornell Lab- Bird Academy. That course is Ornithology: Comprehensive Bird Biology. Honestly, there are so many […]
For the next couple of posts, I will be introducing you to some extraordinary creatures that thrive above and below in Estuarine habitats. A crab that climbs trees? I would […]
There was one other member of the mangrove family that I needed to make sure I brought attention to and that is the Green Buttonwood. This is another Florida native […]
Birds of the Estuaries There’s nothing quite like bird watching when there are so many species gathered all in one place! Many Florida coastal birds use these estuarine habitats as […]
Mangroves Mostly all Florida estuaries have one thing in common, and that is Mangroves! There are over 400,000 acres of mangrove forests that map along the coastal areas of Florida. […]