My Florida Birding Adventures

Birds from the Ding Darling NWA:

Snowy Egret

Roseate Spoonbills. Trust me, they're there.

White Ibis

Little Blue Heron

White Pelicans

List:
Brown Pelican
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
Bald Eagle
Pied-Bill Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Double-Crested Cormorant
Snowy Egret
Tri-Colored Heron
Laughing Gull
Osprey
White Pelican
Red-Breasted Merganser
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Herring Gull
Forster's Tern
Lesser Yellowlegs
Killdeer
Reddish Egret
Roseate Spoonbill
Willet

On 2/16, we spent some time at Manatee Park. While Bill went paddling down the river, I sat under a tree with a book. Here is what I found:
Red Cockaded Woodpecker
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Black and White Warbler
Northern Parula
Eastern Kingbird

And then we went to the Corkscrew Swamp. Had a really good day for birds:
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
Mourning Dove
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Northern Cardinal
Painted Bunting
Carolina Wren
American Goldfinch
Blue-Headed Vireo
Great Crested Flycatcher
White-throated Sparrow
Common Yellowthroat
American Kestral
Palm Warbler
Eastern Wood Peewee
Eastern Phoebe
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Northern Parula
White Ibis
Pine Warbler
Black & White Warbler
Barred Owl
Anhinga
Common Grackle
Turkey Vulture
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Wood Stork
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
Little Blue Heron
Pileated Woodpecker
Black-Crowned Night Heron
Great Blue Heron
Tri-Colored Heron
Great Egret
Swallow Tail Kite
2 Racoons in a tree
4 alligators
3 different kinds of turtles
squirrels
a yellow snake of some sort
and a small lizard
All in all, a good time in Florida

Total Florida birds: 104

Life Birds to date: 349

Texas, here I come!!