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Monday 3rd of April 2023 and I leave for Flamingo Visitor Center at 6 o'clock. I will have a last visit to the Everglades to see the sun rise on more time. It is amazing to be in the wetlands in the dark and to see how the day light slowly lit up the landscape. A fantastic experience to see the landscape open up in front of your eyes. I read that they had spotted a Flamingo there yesterday so I hope to spot the bird as well. but I will start by taking of the main road to check out the wetland next to the Pa-hay-okee Road.  Wood Stork
 Great Egret / Great White Heron / นกยางโทนใหญ่
 Hundreds of Egrets, Storks and Ibises next to the road
 Hundreds of Egrets, Storks and Ibises next to the road
 Hundreds of Egrets, Storks and Ibises next to the road
 Hundreds of Egrets, Storks and Ibises next to the road
 Northern Mockingbird
 Northern Mockingbird
 Northern Mockingbird
I leave the wetlands around the Pa-hay-okee Road and I continue towards the Flamingo Visitor Center. Driving along the main road and I make a few stops to check out the American Black Vultures sitting in the trees along the road. During the day I see them soaring high, there are many more of the Turkey Vultures but they are all soaring and the chance to get pictures are early morning when they sit in trees along the road.  Red-shouldered Hawk
 Red-shouldered Hawk
 Red-shouldered Hawk
 Red-shouldered Hawk
 American Black Vulture
 American Black Vulture
 American Black Vulture
I make one stop when I see a Red-shouldered Hawk with a prey along the road and I make a U-turn to see if I can get some pictures. I also managed to get a video of the Red-shouldered Hawk eating next to the road. I had no luck with the vultures but a few minutes after that I left the Red-shouldered Hawk I had a couple of American Black Vultures in a tree next to the road and I got a few pictures through the sunroof and I was happy with the pictures. I continue towards Flamingo Visitor Center and I pass the Coot Bay Pond, there is a parking and a small opening from the parking to the pond. The pond goes all the way up to the parking and it is just for launching canoes. No cars and I spot a crocodile laying on the ground with open mouth. I make a U-turn and I go back to take a picture and I get a few pictures of the crocodile before it walks away to go down in to the pond  Crocodile
 Crocodile
 Crocodile
It is quite easy to see if it is a crocodile or alligator, the crocodile has open mouth and you never see any alligator with open mouth. And stay more than 10 meters from any crocodile. You see the legs on the last picture and they are quick. Not even a horse can runaway from a crocodile, if it is less than 10 meters. Longer than that and you can just walk away from the crocodile. I reach the visitor center and I drive around looking for birds. I spot one Red-bellied Woodpecker sitting on a trunk next to the road. I stop to take pictures when the bird starts to call. Listen to the Red-bellied Woodpecker
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  Red-bellied Woodpecker
 Red-bellied Woodpecker
 Red-bellied Woodpecker
 Red-bellied Woodpecker
I record the bird through the window and I see one more woodpecker landing next to the other bird and I think it was a couple looking for a nest site. I park the car at the visitor center and I can hear Osprey babies as soon as I get out of the car. And I discover a nest in a tree on the parking lot. So that is two Osprey nest at the Flamingo, 200 meters to the other nest on the bridge Listen to the Osprey
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 Western Osprey in nest with 2 babies
 Western Osprey in nest with 2 babies
 Grey Catbird
I walk down to the water front to have a look for Flamingos, or any other bird will do. No sign of the Flamingo but I can see a group of Brown Pelicans out on the mudflats. And I was lucky, behind me, along the jetty there was a group with Turkey Vultures and American Black Vultures. I have enough picture of the black, but the pictures of the Turkey Vulture sitting in the tree above me turned out to be overexposed. Now I could get pictures and I also got a sound recording of the American Black Vulture, wing flaps and a grunt. The recording can be heard below. Listen to the American Black Vulture
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 American Black Vulture
 Turkey Vulture
 Turkey Vulture
 Turkey Vulture
 Today's track at Flamingo Visitor Center
 The crocodile is still there
I go back to the car and I start to drive back towards my hotel in Florida City. I pass the Coot Bay Pond and the crocodile is still there, but not it has moved down in to the pond. I make a stop at one board walk that I had not visited, but it is only 30 meters long and the only bird was a Grey Catbird, and I never saw the bird, only heard. I pick up my luggage at Best Western Gateway to the Keys and I drive to my last birding spot before leaving Florida, the Castellow Hammock Preserve. I want to see the Painted Bunting, but the bird might have migrated north as the winter is long gone.
I find the Castellow Hammock Preserve and I drive around the parking and I spot a beautiful Blue Jay. I park the car and I go to look in their “Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden” The girl in the information told me that the Hummingbird have left to north to breed. She told me that the Painted Bunting has moved north as well, but there might be some of them remaining. I have no luck with neither the Hummingbird nor the Painted Bunting.  Common Starling
 Common Starling
 Blue Jay
 Blue Jay
 Grey Catbird
 Red-bellied Woodpecker
 White-winged Dove
One more stop before going to Best Western Premier Miami Intl Airport Hotel & Suites Coral Gables. I will drive to Gator Park to take a tour with an Airboat. But I was disappointed, Monday and it is still full of people. I watched 2 departures and they were both full. So, I said: DUCK IT! I took off and I was at my hotel at Miami Airport at 2 o'clock and I returned the car and I was back in my room around 3 o'clock and I will spend the rest of the day in my room I discover that I had forgot my Canon 7X in the rented car, DARN! So, you will never have to see the stupid video I took at Gator Park and the Airboats. My alarm set to go off at 4 and a back-up call from the reception. My flight to Denver leaves at 8 and I really don't want to miss the flight. Click HERE to find out if I make it to Denver, Colorado.
    
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