Florida Index & Trip List

Ding Darling NWR
Photo: Shari Zirlin

Below are links to the day descriptions of our Florida trip. We birded up to the last minute--a Lesser Black-backed Gull on the hotel beach the morning of our departure, a Short-tailed Hawk on the way to airport and, at the airport, the final bird for the trip--Rock Pigeons on the tarmac. 

Song of the Sea Beach
Ding Darling NWR 12/8
Corkscrew Swamp
Charlotte Harbor Buffer Preserve
Cape Coral Library
Point Ybel Lighthouse Park
Harns Marsh Preserve
Ding Darling NWR 12/12
Bunche Beach
Lovers Key SP

96 Species

Species                First Sighting Mottled Duck     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Ring-necked Duck     Harns Marsh Preserve Black Scoter     Lovers Key SP--beach Hooded Merganser     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Red-breasted Merganser     Point Ybel Lighthouse Park Pied-billed Grebe     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Wood Stork     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Magnificent Frigatebird     Song of the Sea Beach Double-crested Cormorant     Song of the Sea Beach Anhinga     J. N. Ding Darling NWR American White Pelican     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Brown Pelican     Song of the Sea Beach Great Blue Heron     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Great Egret     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Snowy Egret     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Little Blue Heron     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Tricolored Heron     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Reddish Egret     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Cattle Egret     Immokalee Rd Green Heron     J. N. Ding Darling NWR--Bailey Tract Black-crowned Night-Heron     Six Mile Cypress Slough Yellow-crowned Night-Heron     J. N. Ding Darling NWR White Ibis     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Glossy Ibis     Harns Marsh Preserve Roseate Spoonbill     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Black Vulture     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Turkey Vulture     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Osprey     Song of the Sea Beach Snail Kite     Harns Marsh Preserve Northern Harrier     Harns Marsh Preserve Bald Eagle     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Red-shouldered Hawk     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Short-tailed Hawk     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Common Gallinule     Harns Marsh Preserve American Coot     Harns Marsh Preserve Limpkin     Harns Marsh Preserve Sandhill Crane     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Black-bellied Plover     Song of the Sea Beach Wilson's Plover     Bunche Beach Semipalmated Plover     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Piping Plover     Bunche Beach Killdeer     Charlotte Harbor Buffer Preserve Spotted Sandpiper     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Greater Yellowlegs     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Willet     Song of the Sea Beach Marbled Godwit     Bunche Beach Ruddy Turnstone     Song of the Sea Beach Red Knot     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Sanderling     Song of the Sea Beach Dunlin     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Least Sandpiper     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Western Sandpiper     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Short-billed Dowitcher     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Long-billed Dowitcher     Bunche Beach Wilson's Snipe     Harns Marsh Preserve Laughing Gull     Song of the Sea Beach Ring-billed Gull     Song of the Sea Beach Lesser Black-backed Gull     Song of the Sea Beach Caspian Tern     Bunche Beach Forster's Tern     Song of the Sea Beach Royal Tern     Song of the Sea Beach Sandwich Tern     Song of the Sea Beach Black Skimmer     Bunche Beach Rock Pigeon     Southwest Florida International Airport Eurasian Collared-Dove     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Mourning Dove     East Gulf Drive Common Ground-Dove     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Burrowing Owl     Cape Coral Public Library Belted Kingfisher     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Red-bellied Woodpecker     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Yellow-bellied Sapsucker     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Pileated Woodpecker     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Merlin     Charlotte Harbor Buffer Preserve Peregrine Falcon     Harns Marsh Preserve Eastern Phoebe     Charlotte Harbor Buffer Preserve Great Crested Flycatcher     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Loggerhead Shrike     Charlotte Harbor Buffer Preserve White-eyed Vireo     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Blue-headed Vireo     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Blue Jay     Charlotte Harbor Buffer Preserve Fish Crow     East Gulf Drive House Wren     Song of the Sea Beach Carolina Wren     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Gray Catbird     Song of the Sea Beach Northern Mockingbird     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Black-and-white Warbler     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Palm Warbler     Song of the Sea Beach Pine Warbler     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Yellow-rumped Warbler     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Yellow-throated Warbler     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Northern Cardinal     J. N. Ding Darling NWR Painted Bunting     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Common Grackle     Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Boat-tailed Grackle     Harns Marsh Preserve House Sparrow     Jerry's Supermarket