Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

I spent Monday afternoon and evening at Merritt

Island National Wildlife Refuge mostly on the Black Pointe Wildlife Drive. I saw LOTS of great birds...starting at the visitors center...an osprey on a nest!











A beautiful Great Blue Heron

A juvenile Wood Stork wading thru a drainage ditch.

A Tri-Colored Heron in the marsh near sunset...

...that crept across the marsh.

This Loggerhead Shrike nicely posed on the top of a sign.

A flock of American Coot's settled down for the night...their numbers kept growing...there must have been hundreds!

An American Avocet near dusk...