Every day at Florida's Fort De Soto Park has the potential to be a great birdrng day. I lay on my belly on a damp salt flat with my long lens Fourteen species of shorebirds fed peacefully in inch-deep shallows within a dozen yaids of me, pausing onlyoccasionally to pose for the camera. The flock included about 20 Red Knots. Some, most likely one-year-old birds, were still wearing their diab winter grays, but several of the fairly large, stocky sandpipers weie in bright breeding plumage, resplendentwith solid brick-red bellies and spangled upperparts. Where was I? Cape May, New Jersey, on the shores of Delaware Bay? No, I was on an oddly shaped island off Florida's Gulf Coast that could easily earn the name "Cape May of the South." I was at Fort De Soto Park, south of St Petersburg.
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机译：佛罗里达Fort De Soto公园的每一天都有可能成为很棒的观鸟日。我将我的长镜头放在潮湿的盐滩上的腹部上，十四只水鸟在我十几个yaids范围内的一英寸深的浅滩中平静地觅食，只是偶尔停下来摆姿势让相机摆姿势。羊群包括大约20个红结。一些，最有可能是一岁的鸟儿，仍然穿着冬天的灰色，但是一些相当大的，矮胖的矶sand在明亮的繁殖羽上微弱，有坚固的砖红色腹部和光亮的上部。我在哪新泽西州的开普梅，在特拉华湾的海岸上吗？不，我当时在佛罗里达州墨西哥湾沿岸一个形状怪异的岛上，这个岛很容易获得“南方五月角”的称号。我当时在圣彼得堡南部的Fort De Soto公园。
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