Over the past few days I've spent quite a bit of time in the St Petersburg area, visiting Fort DeSoto twice, and Boyd hill nature preserve yesterday. I'm still adding birds to my list each day, but things are slowing down. I'm finding it very difficult to pick up passerines, with only a handful on my list.



Fort DeSoto is an amazing site, with lovely beaches and great birding. Here there were numerous heron species on offer which were very tame, as well as various species of waders, terns and magnificant frigatebirds.