The Road to Fort Myers
- Barbara Seith
- Feb 20, 2023
- 2 min read
Oil Well Road – I happened upon this while I was headed for another place that I didn’t find, but driving the road was worth it because I saw a Short-tailed Hawk while I was driving.
Six L’s Farm Road – went here twice – once on the way to Fort Myers and once from Marco Island when I was in the neighborhood and needed to kill time waiting for Parakeets. It was nice the first time and I only did part of it. The second time I went all the way to the end where there was a very large mixed flock including American White Pelicans, Wood Stork, Egrets, Great Blue Herons and such. At different times of the year they get various kinds of Kites there. Car birding
Red-shouldered Hawk
American Kestrel
Wood Stork
Red-shouldered Hawk with it's nictating membrane down (Protects the eye)
American Kestrel
American White Pelican
Wood Storks & American White Pelicans
American White Pelicans
Wood Stork
Loggerhead Shrike
Babcock-Webb WMA – This place is huge, costs $3 to enter. I arrived here mid-day and thought I was going to have to come back, but one of my books recommended that I look for feeding flocks of Warblers (Yellow-rumped, Pine & Palm) and the Red-cockaded Woodpecker & Brown-headed Nuthatch will probably be with them. They were. I only drove about 1/3 of the Management Area and would have like to do the rest at some point. After the first mile you start hearing the shots fired from the public shooting range that is there and it is almost constant for about 2 miles in both directions. It was very pleasant and great marsh habitat after that. I didn’t have a lot of time once I hit the marsh (Seaboard Grade), I suspect I would have seen some Rails if I had lingered or been there at a different time. It was perfect habitat for that. I will be back.
Little Blue Heron
Northern Mockingbird
Red-cockaded Woodpecker (with bling)
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Greater Yellowlegs
Gator!
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