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CREW Bird Rookery Swamp – 2/18/2022 by Bill Gadbow CREW stands for Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed. The CREW Bird Rookery Swamp has a three-mile trail through a working cattle ranch, and it is about eight miles from the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. On the half-mile car ride from the rookery entrance sign Read more »
JN “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge – Sanibel Island, Florida – 2/16/2022 Sanibel Island is a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico not far from Fort Meyers. You access it by crossing over a really long and tall bridge / causeway. About half of the island is dedicated to an excellent wildlife refuge Read more »
Bunche Beach and hanging out poolside in Florida – 2/21/2022 by Bill Gadbow Chris and I got a great deal for eight nights at the La Quinta in Fort Myers Beach on Summerlin Road. It has the best pool in the area, and we spent days sitting poolside, Read more »
Bringing Nature Inside – Breeding Angelfish by Bill Colombo and Dave Gadbow The Gadbow family is pretty large and one of the ways we stay in touch is with family group texts. In January and February of this year, we all got to witness a really interesting project done by our Read more »
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary– 2/18/2022 by Bill Gadbow Two of my best days birding ever were in the Audubon Society’s Corkscrew Sanctuary in February of 2017. I was super-excited to be able to show this fantastic birding Mecca to Chris in 2022. We were required to set up a timed reservation and bought our Read more »
Bombay Hook – 1/22/2022 — by Bill Gadbow — Birds like The Bombay Hook Wildlife Refuge in spring, fall, and winter. The refuge is on the Delaware shore at the point where the Delaware River dumps into the Delaware Bay. Every winter for the last eight years I have been there to Read more »
The beauty of the single drops that hit The pond and cause a wave of life to form And make each lily shiver just a bit Is lost inside the power of a storm. The light that sparkles through two pair of wings And shimmers green and blue on backs and heads Becomes a blur Read more »