Last October we made our first trip down to south Florida since 2004. During our past trips we spent most of our time on the Gulf Coast s...

 South Florida was once a large series of wetlands that ran from the Kissimme River down to the Biscayne Bay. The numerous ponds, slough, ...

 Big Cypress National Preserve is the United States first National Preserve. Much of the 720,000 acre National Preserve was originally int...

 The J.N Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge sits on Sanibel island on the gulf coast of Florida. The refuge was created in 1945 by Harr...

 Before I go on vacation I get on the Internet and do some research about possible locations that I can visit that will give me an opportu...

Doesn't it look warm? I wish it was that warm here. Today the high will be around 34 degrees F which is unseasonably warm for Minnesot...

The Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is an Audubon sanctuary located in south western Florida. The sanctuary began back in the early 1900's w...

We just returned from a trip to Florida yesterday. Hopefully that the posts that I set up for while I was gone did not disappoint. With a ...

One of the more colorful and popular birds that we have seen in our travels to Florida is the roseate spoonbill. Spoonbills are found throug...

When we visited Florida in February of 2006 there were still a lot of areas that had not recovered from the devastation of hurricane Katrin...

Now that we are in the long cold dark days of winter here in Minnesota the birding has gotten a little slow. So in order to keep things on t...