Dry Tortugas a Bird Lovers Paradise
Calling all bird lovers! Start preparing your trip to Key West, and make way toward the Dry Tortugas and Fort Jefferson. We’ve been in bird watchers paradise here at the Dry Tortugas and we can say with confidence that if you are as much of a bird enthusiast as we are, then book a ride with the Yankee Freedom, the Fort Jefferson ferry, and get here as soon as possible.
Because the weather is warming up, and the fish are migrating back, bringing more birds back to the island of the Dry Tortugas as well. The spring has been good to us so far, and has brought us so much beautiful wildlife to admire. We’ve seen blue buntings, Barn Swallows, and Masked Booby all week long, and it’s been fun pointing them out to visitors. Our favorite spotted bird of the week is the Bonaparte’s gull seen for several days between the bricks, picking at the bugs for meals, in the moat (as pictured).
This bird is the only gull that normally builds their nests in trees out of twigs, small branches, and line the inside with mosses. They spend their winters along lakes, marshes, rivers, bays and beaches of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, and their summers around the North of the United States, and Canada. The Bonaparte’s gull breed in the North during the summers and migrate in the Fall and Spring. They feed on small fish, and insects.
Come book a tour to the Dry Tortugas today to come see all the wildlife that is flocking to the island this March.