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Catching Up Is Hard To Do: Part 1

December 13, 2018

Hello friends! It’s been a while since my last post, so I’ll try to catch us up! Perhaps the most interesting happening (at least in my birding world) was the sighting of an American Flamingo in Brevard County in late October . The overall status of the American Flamingo in Florida is still being debated, but whatever fruits that argument bears doesn’t alter how rare a wild…

Summer is the slow season for birding, in most of Florida. As the Springtime migration ends, the local breeders raise their broods and then the region sort of hangs there for a while, in the heat and humidity, pausing for the Fall. With the high humidity and temperatures, as well as other non-birding obligations, there’s not much going on here at Lonely Birder Central. But not nothing. At one of…

A portion of Black Point Wildlife Drive.Photo: Charles Boyer / Talk of Titusville In a statement released today, the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge announced that Black Point Road will be temporarily closed for annual maintenance. The roughly seven-mile dirt road sees a great deal of traffic annually, making periodic resurfacing necessary for its longevity and also to make it a pleasant…

“[NASA] currently [does] not have any activities underway at LC-49.” For many years, NASA has had a potential new launch pad on its Master Plan for Kennedy Space Center: LC-49 is projected to be built on the northern end of KSC property near its border with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. There is also an LC-48 on the slate, located between the current LC-39A (Falcon 9, Falcon…