Leader Dave Lancaster wants to meet 7am – early – to see the Red-cockaded Woodpecker

We will meet at the park entrance Pay Station at 7:00 AM. Our target birds will be the Red-cockaded Woodpeckers, who usually leave their roosting nest hole shortly after 7:15 (sunrise), Brown-headed Nuthatch and migrating Warblers. .We will be caravanning the park roads making stops along the way to look and view birds and nature. We should be finished by noon. The park entrance fee is $3.00 per person with a Maximum $6.00 charge per vehicle, Florida residence 65 and older are free. Babcock- Cecil Webb Wildlife Management Area is located east about a quarter mile from I-75 at Tuckers Grade exit 158, about 15 miles northwest of Ft. Myers, or five miles from Punta Gorda.

For info call Dave Lancaster, phone 586-214-4546. E-mail, DJL8339@comcast.net

Last year we saw 41 species and were entertained by a Swallow-tailed Kite who circled over us for twenty minutes. Our species list can be found on ebird at https://ebird.org/checklist/S166526361.
Fred C. Babcock/Cecil M. Webb Wildlife Management Area is Florida’s oldest wildlife management area and protects 80,772 acres.

To download a recreation guide, go to https://myfwc.com/media/26170/babcockwebb_recguide.pdf. You can download a map at https://myfwc.com/media/26670/babcockwebb-trailmap.pdf