PHOTO GALLERY: 1st annual Bird-A-Thon

Venice High School’s Spoonbills celebrate their victory

An Anhinga soars over the Celery Fields

Telescopes are available to birders from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. every day until May 1

217 recorded species of birds reside or migrate to Celery fields every year

A Loggerheard Shrike sits on top of a newly planted palm

The Sarasota Audubon Society supplied Wildlife Bingo boards for families to play with at the Bird-A-Thon

Celery Fields is a 440-acre storm water facility with a wetland preserve of more than 100 acres