Even though we didn’t have a lot of time to go birding while in Florida last week (and even though I’m stretching out those few hours of birding into many posts, ha ha!), it was so much fun to see birds we don’t normally get to see up here where we live. Here are some of the more southern species we saw at Viera Wetlands.
Northern Mockingbirds range into northern Illinois and further during the summer, but we just don’t get to see them much here in Lake County. Once we got into Tennessee though, they were all over the place. They were hanging out at Viera Wetlands, too.
We only saw one Glossy Ibis at Viera, even though these are pretty common birds in Florida.
We also just saw this one lovely Limpkin.
And some more of the usual Florida suspects…
Anhingas everywhere!
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
… and lots of these guys
Coming up next… our six lifers at Viera. Stay tuned!
