Guided Walks – Pinecraft Park
Meet John Groskopf at Pinecraft Park for a less than 1 mile shaded walk looking for migrants, flyovers, and water birds. Restrooms are available.
Meet John Groskopf at Pinecraft Park for a less than 1 mile shaded walk looking for migrants, flyovers, and water birds. Restrooms are available.
Meet John Groskopf at Red Bug Slough in Sarasota for a 2 mile walk looking for migrants, forest birds, waders, flyovers, and ducks. The walk is about half shade and half sun.
Stu Wilson (512-897-8341) and Cathy Paris will meet you at the entrance to Broadway Beach, 7001 Seabreeze Ave. (West end of Broadway St. @ North end of LBK). You will learn to ID gulls, terns, sandpipers, and other shorebirds while walking 1-2 miles in the sun and on sand. There are no restroom facilities.
Mary Heinlen (email) and Helen King will meet you at Siesta Key Beach in front of the pavilion with the American flag that is to the right as you enter the main parking lot. You will learn to ID shorebirds during a 1.5 mile walk in the sand and sun. Restrooms are available.
This walk is cancelled. Damage from Hurricane Milton caused unsafe conditions on trails.
This walk is cancelled. Damage from Hurricane Milton caused unsafe conditions on trails.
After passing through the main entrance (SR-72), make the first right-hand turn and follow to the parking lot. Stu Wilson (512-897-8341) and Cathy Paris will lead you through the park, stopping along the main park road to find birds. Bring a lunch or buy one at the concession stand. Participants are free to drop off...
Helen King (850-556-2950) and Kathryn Young will escort you on a "birking" trip through Nathan Benderson Park. Birking is bicycling and birding. Meet at the playground parking lot (5851 Nathan Benderson Cir) with your own bicycle. We will ride slowly on paved paths for approximately 7 miles looking for an array of different birds. Restrooms...
There is a fee to enter park. Meet Cynthia Huesman (email Cynthia) and Rob Gonzalez at Lake Osprey Nature Center. Strive to find the endangered Florida Scrub Jay and other resident birds as we take a 1.5 mile walk on sandy trails, mainly in the sun. Restrooms at the Nature Center
Lynn Jakubowicz (email) will take you on a 1 mile mostly shady walk searching for waders, ducks, and forest birds in Lakeview Park. Meet Lynn in the parking lot. Restrooms are available.