Stephen Ingraham (who?)
the unofficial site for birders and digiscopers using Zeiss equipment.
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Nature Festival 2008 Every year the Space Coast Birding and Nature Festival gets bigger and better. Bigger in the more attendees sense. Better in the better field trips, better workshops, better organizaion sense. This year once again demonstrated the wisdom of the move to January. The birds at Merritt Island NWR were the best I've seen in years. Though there was much more water along Blackpoint Wildlife Drive than at this time last year, the birds were still in-close and cooperative. Spoonbills were just coming into full breeding plumage. The Great Egrets, on the final day, were even begining their territorial and mating rituals. The new observation decks and the briding trail along Blackpoint proved productive on every visit, allowing close enounters with feeding Tricolored Herons, Wood Storks, and Reddish Egrets. Hooded Mergansers were present in numbers in the ponds beyond the last observation deck. The weather was great for photography. High sun. Clear cool air. (So cool I resorted to winter hat and gloves on more than one morning.) If you haven't added Space Coast to your wish list for festivals, this is the time to do it. It will only get better. And what could make it better than you're being there?
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