Merritt Island - Black Point Wildlife Drive

I took 500+ photos and videos, narrowed them down to 142 favorites and chose these to share with you.

Avocet

Avocet

A cloud of birds

Eastern Meadowlark

Greater Yellowlegs

Killdeer

Least tern that I watched diving for fish.

Long-billed Dowitcher

Roseate Spoonbill

Roseate Spoonbills

White Ibis, Juvenile White Ibis, Glossy Ibis

woodstork

Tricolored Heron

Reddish Egret (Watching them "dance" over the water is amazing.)

Little Blue Heron

American Coots were EVERYWHERE!

Great Egret and Snowy Egrets

Blue-winged teal

Hooded Mergansers

Northern Shovelers

Ring-necked ducks

200 + white pelicans caused a traffic jam on the road.

The white pelicans seem to take over the refuge... both on water and in the sky.

The sky was filled with white pelicans.  

The Black Point Wildlife Drive is a 7 mile one way road.
It took me almost 3 hours the first time around and then an hour on my second trip.

When I woke up that morning there was a dense fog warning.
But I headed out anyway.

There were a lot of others enjoying the sights.