COLOMBIA 3/19 to3/30/26 (still working on this incredible trip!) more pics coming soon!
We headed down to camp on Dry Tortugas, FL via Merritt Island NWR, Miami, and Key West. It was an amazing trip catching mostly warblers but also highlighted by a fine Spot-breasted Oriole, a Caribbean race Osprey, and a small Roseate Tern flock amidst the 80,000 Sooty Terns on Bush Key!
Going Back in Time…… 4/30 and 5/1 pics coming soon!
4/29/26 Dry Tortugas, FL: Black-throated Blue Warbler (m), Hooded Warbler (m), Northern Parula bathing , Black-whiskered Vireo , Gray Kingbird , Ovenbird , Cape May Warbler (m,f), and a wet Prairie Warbler .
4/29/26 Dry Tortugas, FL : Roseate Tern , American Redstart , Barn Swallow , Brown Pelican , Magnificent Frigatebird , distant Red-footed Booby in MAFR colony , Sooty Tern with young.
4/29/26 Dry Tortugas, FL: Bridled Tern , White-winged Dove , and Indigo Bunting (f).
4/28/26 Took the Ferry to Dry Tortugas, FL: Antillean Nighthawk , Black-whiskered Vireo , Cape May Warbler (f), Common Nighthawk , Osprey (Caribbean race) , American Kestrel , Indigo Bunting , Northern Parula , Ovenbird , Palm Warbler , Prairie Warbler , and Western Cattle Egret .
4/27/26 Brief stop around Homestead, FL to try for a Spot-breasted Oriole: What a beauty! Also, Loggerhead Shrike and Eastern Meadowlark .
4/27/26 Brief stop at Merritt Is. NWR, FL: Mostly quiet. Reddish Egret , Black-crowned Night-Heron , Boat-tailed Grackle , Tricolored Heron , and White Ibis .
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