Florida 2007 part 1

I recently realised that I mentioned we were going to Florida and that I might wave my camera at some stuff but then didn't write or show any of the images...doh!

So, here is part one...

We flew into Southwest Florida Airport on the 13th November and then drove East, straight across Florida to Boca Raton where we were to spend our first few days.

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I know that sounds like a dumb thing to do but we were finishing up on Sanibel Island and wanted to have an easy last day, rather than a trek across Florida.

And we flew Jet Blue - they are competitively priced with more leg-room.  That extra inch or so is worth the slight extra in price...and we managed to get the emergency exit row on the way down.

During the 14th and 15th November, we visited Green Cay Wetlands (where I was joined on one morning by Lance Warley, who had kindly offered to show me around his local patch - thanks Lance!), Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Loxahatchee NWR and a park in Cooper City.

We saw pretty much all the birds you would expect over those couple of days (full list below) with the highlights being the Limpkins, obliging adult Roseate Spoonbill and the Burrowing Owls.

On the 16th we headed south to the Florida Keys for the next few days of our trip....to be continued.

Don't forget you can click on any image to see it bigger with more information.

65 Species (65 trip total).

Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Tricolored Heron
Little Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-heron
Yellow-crowned Night-heron
Wood Stork
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Black-bellied Whistling-duck
Egyptian Goose
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Bufflehead
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
American Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
American Kestrel
Limpkin
American Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-dove
Mourning Dove
White-winged Dove
Nanday Parakeet
Monk Parakeet
Burrowing Owl
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
Blue Jay
American Crow
European Starling
Myrtle Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler At a Rest area
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Boat-tailed Grackle
Common Grackle

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