The Keys trip

We're off and running on a trip to the Florida Keys and out to the Dry Tortugas. When you want life birds, you have to go search them out in places you've never visited before. We've been to the Keys, but not since we started birding together some 10 years ago. And so.....off we go. We travelled down to the gateway of the Keys, Florida City, today. Having several hours to bird, we went down to the Everglades. The height of the birding down here right now is the spring migration. We ran into some old friends.....the warblers on their way back north. Hearing the familiar song of the Prairie, we sat pat and waited the birds out. Sure enough, two beautiful Prairies flew right in next to us and posed as pretty as could be. They were both in beautiful breeding plumage as seen in today's photo. Tomorrow, it's off to find some new "lifers". We'll let you know how it goes.