Flahback 2 Palm Beach County, FL 2021
Last July, my wife and I took a mini vacation with my friend, Al, and his wife to West Palm Beach, FL. It was just a couple of days so my wife could get away and relax. Of course, I used the opportunity to get in some birding. As I usually do, I spent the weeks leading up to departure by studying eBird reports of the area. I assembled a reasonable target list of birds considering that I wasn’t going to have any actual dedicated time just for birding. Plus, Al likes to bird too, so if I could get him a new bird or two, he’d be happy. We stayed in West Palm Beach. That area of Florida was new to me. Sometimes I forget just how big Florida is until I start driving around looking for birding hotspots. It is common to have to drive well over an hour within any county to find a desired location. On the first full day I did find a spot that was only about a 15-to-20-minute drive from our hotel called Winding Waters Natural Area. While the rest of my party was relaxing poolside,