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Florida: The South, the Keys and the Dry Tortugas

We’ll start out north of Fort Myers looking for Florida Scrub-Jay…
…and visiting a colony of Red-cockaded Woodpeckers.
Raptors like this Red-shouldered Hawk will be common here…
…and are often a highlight of the birding.
Just a little to the north we’ll look for Nanday Parakeets…
…and stop in at Fort DeSoto where spring migrant birds often congregate.
Florida is full of wetlands…
…where many birds are surprisingly tame
Black-necked Stilts will join…
…Little Blue Herons…
…comical Anhingas…
…active Snowy Egrets…
…White Ibis…
…secretive Purple Gallinules…
…and dazzling Roseate Spoonbills in an impressive show of color.
Not all the denizens of the marshes are birds though…
…and we’ll look at Halloween Pennants…
…lizards like this Brown Anole…
…and if we’re lucky maybe even a Gopher Tortoise or two.
Barred Owls are common in the Cypress forests of the Everglades…
…as are impressive Pileated Woodpeckers…
Established exotics like Common Myna…
…and Monk Parakeet will occupy some of our attentions.
Local specialties like Shiny Cowbird…
…and the scarce Mangrove Cuckoo…
…and, if present, Caribbean strays such as Western Spindalis…
…LaSagra’s Flycatcher…
…and Black-faced Grassquit certainly add to the excitement.
We’ll take a day trip out to the Dry Tortugas…
…where against a perfect Caribbean backdrop…
…thousands of breeding seabirds…
…like Brown Noddies…
…are joined by a few loafing Brown Boobies…
…and some Masked Boobies from a nearby breeding colony.
Fort Jefferson on Garden Key offers shelter…
…for wayward migrants like Ovenbird…
…sometimes a Black-whiskered Vireo…
…Prairie Warbler…
…Wood Thrush…
…and Palm Warbler, and the cast changes on a daily basis.

 

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