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Posted by Paul-the-other on 03:12:09 11/19/07
In Reply to: Florida Birding with non-birders posted by Las Vegas Birder
North on the Turnpike to Exit 81 (Atlantic Blvd):
See ring necked ducks at rentention pond as you loop off of the Turnpike; quick deviation BEFORE the toll to the green grass park and binoc the flock...very large
Then pay toll and head east on Atlantic to first stop light; Go left (north) to Green Cay Water treatment facility....plenty of parking nice walk, bath rooms etc.
LEave Green Cay go back south to Lake Ida Road and then go east (left turn) all the way to stop light which is Jog Road;
Go left on Jog road a short distance to Wakodahatchee (another boardwalked water treatment place) Knock yourself out there! It should occur to you that Wakodahatchee is exactly east of Green Cay. Cool? Anyway,
Then go north on Jog Road all the way to Forest Hill Blvd; Go left
Now you are heading west, all the way to Okeeheelee. Follow the signs to the Nature Preserve (try hard to ignore the cheesy golf, boating, picnicing, jogging and all that dull stuff
At the Preserve tour the exhibit, really well done and after that sit out back at the feeder station by the backdoor and zone out on painted buntings, ovebirds, indigo buntings.
The Turnpike is just west of you by about a mile BUT...you can't get on from Forest Hill. So north on Jog again to I don't know where for Turnpike access or Jog south to Lake worth Blvd, then west a short two miles to Turnpike
Enter Turnpike and ask yourself.....is Sebastian really that important when you have so many great sites in Dade/Broward/Palm Beach.
By the way, there are two very large, very large alligators at Wakodahatchee presenting nice photo ops if the sun and water conditions are right. And at Green Cay Bobcats are seen regularly.
And at Okeeheelee, if you dare, sit near the feeder on the cement pavement and just try to catch the buntings....a nice zoom lens will serve well here. The birds come and go very fast and the commotion with the squirrels is agitated! This is a good excercise for "speed shooting". Regrettably, the best time is early AM so if you have gone to the other places you wont get there at "feeding time."
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