4/19/25 – 4/24/25 We headed to south Florida, pausing in Miami, then traveled down the keys to Key West where we boarded the ferry to camp on Dry Tortugas – one of our favorite places!
GOING BACK IN TIME….
4/23 and 4/24/25 Dry Tortugas, FL: WHERE to begin? The birds were amazing! We will start with Cape May Warbler followed by Black-throated Blue Warbler (Mostly males coming through.) We certainly enjoyed a Black-whiskered Vireo that came out for a bath and gave us a show!
4/23/ and 4/24/25 Dry Tortugas, FL: American Restart up close and personal. Mostly males passing through again. Hooded Warbler, Prairie Warbler, and Blackpoll !
4/23 and 4/24/25 Dry Tortugas, FL: Northern Parula , Black-and-white Warbler , Ovenbird , Palm Warbler , Common Yellowthroat , Merlin , and a distant Black Noddy with two larger Brown Noddies on either side.
4/23 and 4/24/25 Dry Tortugas, FL: Summer Tanager (m) , Painted Bunting (m)(He went from “Beautiful” to “Clean but Having a Bad Hair Day”), Bobolink duo (m), Bridled Tern , Brown Noddy , Gray Kingbird , and Magnificent Frigatebird .
4/23 and 4/24/25 Dry Tortugas, FL: And a Sooty Tern study.
4/21 and 4/22/25 The Florida Keys: Yellow Warbler (m) , Black-whiskered Vireo , Black-and-white Warbler (m,f), Cape May Warbler (m), Great Blue Heron (white morph), a Great Crested Flycatcher that decided to take a mud bath, Northern Parula , Red-bellied Woodpecker , and a lovely view of a White-crowned Pigeon .
4/20/25 Miami area, FL: A hodge-podge of places and birds! Barnes and Coral Reef Park, Homestead and the Everglades NP areas gave us: Blue and Yellow Macaw , Burrowing Owl , Common Gallinule with young, young Egyptian Goose and adult with young , Eurasian-collared Dove , Muscovy Duck with young, Anhinga pair on nest , and Purple Martin feeding its young (Poorer images but still of interest. Three chicks were getting so big, the parent thought it best to feed them from afar!).
4/19/25 Miami, FL: We visited Brewer Park and Fairchild Botanical Gardens to see what we could see: A Chestnut-fronted Macaw pair was interacting in a nearby tree at Brewer – very fun to watch. We saw Orange-winged Amazon and Red-masked Parakeet at Fairchild along a Green Heron and Egyptian Goose. Also, a lone and rather poor image of a Lilac-crowned Amazon which is supposedly rare at Fairchild.
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