| FWC Home : Recreation : Wildlife Viewing : Wildlife Through the Year December | Wildlife Through the Year: December | - Annual Christmas Bird Count begins mid-month.
- Buy live Christmas trees for later planting - red cedar, holly and pine are nice.
- Great horned and barred owls are courting; listen for their hooting.
- During cold spells, manatees congregate at natural springs and industrial warm water sites.
- Bears are still on the move. Watch out for them in Lake, Collier, Marion, Highlands, Jefferson, Gulf, Volusia and Hernando counties.
- Belted kingfishers become more common as winter migrants join resident populations.
- Right whales appear off east coast north of Sebastian Inlet.
- Snail kites in south Florida begin courtship this month.
- Goldfinches are plentiful in north Florida.
- Nesting season begins for ospreys in south Florida.
- December and January are best times for watching waterfowl on wetlands, lakes, and prairies.
- In north Florida, bald eagles start hatching about Christmas day.
- Opossum breeding now through mid-summer.
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