Boyd Hill Nature Preserve is an important habitat for gopher tortoises in southern Pinellas County. Recent deaths and a lack of protections for the species are getting attention.
It’s a rite of passage in Florida. You’re out at the park with your friends, ooh-ing and aah-ing over a brood of ducklings when an egret swoops in and snatches one like a Dorito. Chomp, Chomp! It’s gone. You shriek. Now — nature lovers be warned — it’s the little alligators’ turn. At preserves and swampy parks around Tampa Bay, dozens of juvenile crocodilians, likely born last summer, are .
American Stage: Tales By Twilight Head to Boyd Hill Park for some live theater. You read that right. Both installments of Tales By Twilight are part of American Stage’s “Beyond the Stage” program, which started with Nassim Soleimanpour’s “White Rabbit, Red Rabbit” in November 2023. The goal of the program,—which is at Boyd Hill through Feb. 28—is to make theater more accessible to Tampa Bay residents by engaging people where they are—in their neighborhood. The series runs through Feb. 28.