BIRDING the FLORIDA EVERGLADES...carefully.

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Everglades National Park is famous for birds and wildlife, if you know where to look. Just avoid the alligators, crocodiles, panthers and snakes. Don't touch the poisonous plants. Be prepared for insects and sunburns.

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@stevencanden2911 3 ай бұрын

Newscaster voice + great birder + slightly unhinged at times = my favorite birding content on KZfaq

@Bob_Duchesne 3 ай бұрын

Slightly?

@WildlifeEthics 3 ай бұрын

Very enjoyable video. Bob has a nice way of talking with us as he goes; good cadence, informative and just a lot of fun. Enthusiasm is contagious with Bob leading the way ! Must say that "Christian Point" was heartbreaking. Looked like Nature just sort of "gave up" on any recovery. Hope it becomes something beautiful once again......

@taramansion 7 күн бұрын

I learned a lot. I'm happy to say I've seen many of these birds in my yard!

@torinkyifh5085 27 күн бұрын

"....this is Royal Palm. But truth is, after every hurricane, there seems to be one fewer." I cackled sooo hard. What makes ya say that? 😂

@user-lg1gj3li9j 2 ай бұрын

I remember going down to the Redlands Baptist Church every Sunday and Dad taking the back way would drive us by Oolite pit mines then just past there was a grove of the darkest pine trees that i had ever seen. The kids that lived across from Oolite would tell us some scary tales about the "forest". But my Dad always told us to stay out of those trees because they weren't safe. We got to go to work with him on Saturdays because it was one day that the boss wasn't working at Oolite pit mines. There were some interesting things around the lakes that were being dug out for the shale dirt. Like the black peoples cemetary that was being covered over with mine tailings. It was scary to walk through the grave stones that were still standing at the back of the 3rd lake. My Dad told us we were never to talk about them but the local kids knew they were there but didnt understand the signicance of the headstones. It took me until i was an adult to figure it out.

@SheilaGrant-rg4xk 3 ай бұрын

Thank you, Bob. I miss our winter trips to Florida so much. This was a nice mini-vacation during my lunch break!

@frednorman1 Ай бұрын

I swear I would never visit Florida (I live in Northern California) but after watching this video makes me want to go to the Everglades

@SongbirdFPV 3 ай бұрын

I can already tell this is a Gem youtube video

@Bob_Duchesne 3 ай бұрын

This one was a LOT of fun. Just visiting some of my favorite haunts was a treasure.

@sharonkaczorowski8690 Ай бұрын

We live in N Delaware and back on the Christiana River. We are under a migration route for birds and have so many beautiful song and water birds…it’s a joy to see and hear them. There are some pairs of birds who nest in the marsh across from us that we actually recognize from year to year. Shortly after we moved in 20 years ago beaver returned. I doubt it will happen in my lifetime but I hope for otters. They have been seen in other areas around us. Wonderful video.

@Bob_Duchesne Ай бұрын

Some day, I'm going to do a video on Bombay Hook NWR. Birding Delaware is fun!

@sharonkaczorowski8690 Ай бұрын

@@Bob_Duchesne I look forward to it! I’m disabled so can’t do much anymore unless there’s wheelchair access. I look forward seeing other the videos and the one on Bombay Hook, a place I love.

@MisterNohbdy 3 ай бұрын

Lived close to here as a kid. The Gumbo Limbo Trail was a pretty common school field trip. Somehow never got boring.

@Bob_Duchesne 3 ай бұрын

Hardest thing about filming the Royal Palm segment? Noisy school groups. Lots of them. Which is great! What a good way to teach nature.

@Geophoto63 3 ай бұрын

Great Very good video, you are very right when you say that each trip is different, I go very often but it has been a while since we have even seen the alligators, I don't know what has happened to the birds, recently we were able to see a Great Horned Owl, but Most of the birds that frequent the Everglades during migratory times are no longer seen, it is really very sad, and also many people very close to the Osprey nests, even bothering them. Thank you very much again for such a good narrative.

@Bob_Duchesne 3 ай бұрын

I do that every visit is different, even when I see less than I am expecting. I really wish I had more time to linger. It's been years since I camped on a chickee. I saw spoonbills flying over Flamingo, and I know they're in there somewhere. I worry less about the ospreys. They seem comfortable with people. I'm more impressed that they're so comfortable with each other - nests in such close proximity to each other. No apparent rivalry. That's a testament to how plentiful the food is that they don't compete much.

@KyleWithTheWild 3 ай бұрын

Great video and loved the commentary!

@davearchbell9921 3 ай бұрын

Very informative. I'll have to put it on my bucket list.

@barbaracole709 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the fun and informative video! I love the Everglades!

@Bob_Duchesne 3 ай бұрын

I can never get enough of the place . I'm already longing to go back.

@piccadillypie 3 ай бұрын

Great info and video! Thanks, Bob!

@CC-re1pu 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing another great and informative video!

@Bob_Duchesne 3 ай бұрын

I've been dying to do this one for a long time. I didn't even get to half the secrets I wanted to. Could have stayed twice the time and not done it justice.

@leobachand8408 3 ай бұрын

Great video!!! Really enjoyed it!! Going to add it to our list!

@shreecreativearts5132 2 ай бұрын

Adorable video

@jolaynemichaud4377 3 ай бұрын

Thank you from Alberta, that was great fun!

@birdman5223 3 ай бұрын

Outstanding MrBob☺️

@Bob_Duchesne 3 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly

@brighteyedbirding 3 ай бұрын

Such informative videos! Thank you so much for putting in so much time and effort. I can't wait to got to the everglades someday!

@Berry_N 3 ай бұрын

Enjoyed this! Thanks, from California 🥾📷

@MRIVERSSC 3 ай бұрын

Holy cow, I will be in the area the next few days and so this video couldn’t have come at a better time! So informative and I love how Bob shows the map as he travels along, I can’t imagine a better produced video of this great Nationally Park, outstanding.

@Bob_Duchesne 3 ай бұрын

Anything or experience you're looking for? The winter was wet but March has been dry. It was almost mosquito-free.

@MRIVERSSC 3 ай бұрын

@@Bob_Duchesne Nothing in particular, have been there before but didn’t have any real information about the place, now I do thanks to you.

@thebirdprofessor5706 3 ай бұрын

Last Summer and this Winter, we have had a tremendous amount of rain. Winter is typically our dry season, but not this Winter. At 4:19 on your map, Hidden Lake is due north of where you marked Hidden Lake. It is that little road that goes to it. The lake that you are calling Hidden Lake is the newly restored area. This area was the last 400 acres cleared of Brazilian Pepper. The bird at 4:47 is a Great White Heron or a white morph of a Great Blue Heron. The ducks at 4:53 are Ring-necked Ducks. At 11:04 you mention that Strangler Fig is a vine but it is a tree. Bird droppings with Strangler Fig seeds are dropped on branches often high up. The Strangler Fig then sends roots down to the ground. At 12:04 the water levels of Paurotis Pond show how high the water levels are. The herons, egrets, and Roseate Spoonbills won't nest until the water levels are lower and concentrate the fish needed for the young. Snake Bight Trail and all of the trails from there towards Flamingo, can have hoards of mosquitoes. Typically Winter and Early Spring the numbers will be lower. I enjoyed your video!

@Bob_Duchesne 3 ай бұрын

This is GREAT! Thanks. I learn so much on every visit, despite how often I've been there. As to your point, my wife also disagreed with where I marked Hidden Lake...and she's always right. I confess, I looked twice (thrice) at that heron, but ultimately caved to egret despite my misgivings. The strangler fig I knew about, but explained poorly. I've never seen Paurotis Pond so empty. I feared for the worse. And Snake Bight owes me one. On my very first visit, when mosquitoes were horrible, I got back to the gate in time to see a pair of cuckoos in the tree above. It NEVER occurred to me 52 years ago that they were lifer mangrove cuckoos. It took me another 35 YEARS to get one over near Naples - my longest grudge bird ever. (Boreal owl is catching up.) Thank for the help. I already want to go back.

@JA51711 3 ай бұрын

Great sightings. The green heron gorgeous

@Bob_Duchesne 3 ай бұрын

And he just didn't care how close I was, though, granted, I tried hard not to startle him.

@pennhillman 3 ай бұрын

Great info, well done thankyou..

@Bob_Duchesne 3 ай бұрын

52 years in the making...sort of... Thanks.

@sylviamaulding2237 3 ай бұрын

I have seen several leucistic birds. Got photos of a pure white ROBIN and a mostly white RT HAWK.

@sylviamaulding2237 3 ай бұрын

wrong post sorry.

@JA51711 3 ай бұрын

It is great to see one of my favorite birds the osprey

@Don-md6wn 3 ай бұрын

Honeymoon Island State Park near St. Pete is a great place for nesting osprey.

@birdswithbeau 3 ай бұрын

1:15 I think the alligator is just swallowing some grit to help with digestion... 😂

@Bob_Duchesne 3 ай бұрын

Only if he's intending to digest a mastodon. 😂

@birdswithbeau 3 ай бұрын

🤣

@ndejohn27 3 ай бұрын

Love the video! I am going to the Everglades this weekend. Any good places to see a snail kite?

@Bob_Duchesne 3 ай бұрын

I sometimes get them around Pa-hay-okee, but not this year. I most often get them around Shark Valley on the Tamiami Trail - both near that part of Everglades NP and also near some of the dikes where water crosses the canal. Just look up. They can seem a little like vultures and be overlooked.

@ndejohn27 3 ай бұрын

Thanks, that’s helpful!

@kathyporter6479 3 ай бұрын

I remember going to the Everglades in the mid 80's and seeing skinny raccoons in the trees near the Anhinga Trail. Not like fat Maine raccoons. The pythons got them? That is pretty sad.

@DisheveledSuccess 21 күн бұрын

Like and Sub for the Swallowtail Kites. I have video of Kite predation upon smaller nestlings I guess less native snails means harder times.

@Bob_Duchesne 21 күн бұрын

Either my timing was great or the population has increased since my last visit. They were EVERYWHERE.

@scottvaughn7824 16 күн бұрын

Lots of rattlesnakes to look out for. I almost got nailed in high grass on Long Pine Trail.

@Bob_Duchesne 16 күн бұрын

How long ago? I enjoy finding snakes, but all I came up with this time was one indigo snake. Damn pythons!

@scottvaughn7824 15 күн бұрын

@@Bob_Duchesne It was years ago. I e also seen them down by where they built the eco tents. I also remember all those marsh rabbits on the drive in to Flamingo to launch, all gone! We used to stay at the cabins, wiped out by hurricane Wilma, you couldn’t leave anything edible in your coolers or the raccoons would get it. They’re all gone too. I’m In Australia now, you would go nuts here with the bird life. A few days ago we saw 5 Cassowaries! I could listen to the Kookaburras all day.

@listenerofnature7899 3 ай бұрын

Great video! Looks like you had a great time there too! I have one question, what camera do you use to film birds?

@Bob_Duchesne 3 ай бұрын

It's a Canon Vixia HF G50. It's such a versatile workhorse. I don't even bring along my SLR anymore. The only problem I have with it is that it is way smarter than I am, and it's taken me a little while to bend it to my will. I think Canon is now up to the G70, but I still haven't outgrown this one after two years. It goes everywhere with me. However, some credit has to go to Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. I spend a lot of time steadying shaky footage.