Flashback 1 Fulvous Whistling-ducks and a Gator
Since this blog is new, I will occasionally look back at previous adventures and share some of those highlights here. My first flashback is from August 2021 that featured a new life bird and an interesting wildlife encounter. My wife, oldest daughter and I went to Florida to visit family in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area, during which we took a side trip to Disney World for a couple of days. One of those days, my wife and daughter set out for a magical day at one of the theme parks while I took the car to Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive. Wildlife drive is a central Florida hotspot about 25 miles from Disney that hosts nearly 300 known bird species. It is basically a nine-plus mile drive through central Florida marshes and wetlands. I had two targeted birds I wanted to find there that I likely wasn’t going to see in New Jersey: fulvous whistling-duck and purple gallinule. The only purple gallinule I had seen was the pre...