Naturalist Corner

A place for news, resources and updates on the preserve and surrounding area.

Happy 4th of July!

Our South Walton Turtle Watch shore patrol at sunrise this morning!  The ladies were out wishing everyone a happy 4th! Pretty good turtle nesting season so far.

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Spring Warblers

Courtesy of the Galveston Ornithological Society Warblers are the gems of spring, almost every color one can imagine. Several ground-dwelling species are yellow, a few

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Lake Fuller, Easter 2023

Enjoy the gallery of photographs below which were taken by Lake Fuller over Easter, 2023 – including photos of two eglets on the nest.

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Be BearWise this spring

Courtesy of Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission Now that spring is here, black bears in Florida are becoming more active. The Florida Fish and

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Early Spring Migrants

Our spring migration roughly runs from mid March through mid May, with a very few birds outside those parameters. The general peak of the movement

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Wintering Shorebirds

Birders fear groups like Empidonax flycatchers for difficulty of identification but I’ve discovered that for a variety of reasons, birders really crash on wintering plovers

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South Florida Waterbirds

Florida has more kinds of aquatic habitat than any area equal-sized on the Planet. Aside from a never-ending salty shoreline, with estuaries, salt marsh and

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