This area is one of Florida's premier birding locations with 330 recorded species just last year. There is a seven mile loop that birders can drive, the Black Point Wildlife Drive. We drove it slowly and then we drove it again. This is where we saw the "dancing" reddish egrets. There is also a Wild Bird Trail with elevated hides and a long walkway. We also drove Gator Creek Road along another driving bird trail. I got photos of hundreds of birds, including 24 different species. Of those eight were new to my lifelist. But first things first, we stopped for some breakfast before heading over to the mainland. First we had to drive north to New Smyrna Beach and then south to Titusville and then cross back over to the barrier islands. That took a bit but once we got to the bird trail we started seeing birds immediately. We had a blast and even picked up a hitch hiker bird that landed on our windshield wiper and rode along with us for a while.
The wind is still blowing
No baptisms today
The big bridge ahead will get us out of Titusville
Back over to the barrier islands
Almost there
Oriented
Tada!
Gators may be the reasoning for making this a drive through bird area
We pulled over multiple times to let those folks that were in a hurry pass
Little blue heron
Reddish Egret lifebird #1
A beautiful bird greeting us
Landing on our car, this boat tailed grackle made us laugh
This grackle adopted us
He even hung on while we drove off
Two birds with one shot. A pied billed grebe and a great blue heron
Great Blue Heron with an itch
Greater Yellowlegs Lifebird #2
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Foster's Tern lifebird #3
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Stilt Sandpiper lifebird #4
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Least Sandpiper lifebird #5
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Willet lifebird #6
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Western Cattle Egret lifebird #7
Green Heron checking out the tunnle
No no no no
Nice reflections
Mudflat baby!
Time to walk a bit
The trail was easy
Anhinga
Northern Harrier lifebird #8
One leg
The blue winged teal are napping
Little egret ready to stab
The old shuttle building
Northern shovelers
Mottled ducks
Tricolor and blue herons
Everybody head right!
Rosette spoonbill
Stick Man!
El Gator
Pony tail time
Red bellied woodpecker
Anybody want to guess?
Hundreds of cormorants
Out of town, heading north!
