We started the day with two Common Loons.
There were Black-bellied Plovers along the beaches at the state park.
As with all winter beaches in Florida Sanderlings were the most abundant shorebirds.
Going from the beach to a trail through dune scrub we found an array of songbirds – Myrtle (Yellow-rumped) Warblers were common. The Eastern Kingbird was new for the trip.
In the afternoon we went to a park that we had visited in the past. This park has a great boardwalk allowing nice views of carnivorous plants.
The boardwalk isn’t very long, but is quite nice.
I you carefully look out with the sun behind you =you can see all of the white-lipped pitcher plants and Tracy’s sundew.
This is the flower of the white-lipped pitcher plant.
Two of the pitcher plants. The one on the left has a flesh fly on it. These raise their young in the pitcher where they are immune to the digestive enzymes and feed on trapped dead insects.
Some of the large number of Tracy’s sundew that are a lot larger than the ones that we found the other day.
More later…
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