It just wouldn’t seem like summer without having little Barn Swallows darting and diving around Lake Apopka.
Category: Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive

Black-neck Stilts bring babies, summer fun
They’re only here for breeding season but are seen year-round across Cuba, the Caribbean, and parts of Mexico and South America.

Eagles, hawks and more at Lake Apopka
Seeing a little Bald Eagle eaglet and a Red-tailed Hawk were two of the highlights of my recent trip to Lake Apopka.

Peregrine Falcon in flight at Lake Apopka
The falcon decided to swoop down from a powerline in search of a meal from the ducks and coots in one of the ponds.

Circle of life: Breakfast with Peregrine Falcon
Yards in front of my car, a Peregrine Falcon swooped down and grabbed a Common Gallinule, taking the bird to the top of a power pole for breakfast.

Why Central Florida is a birding paradise
With some much geographic diversity, no wonder there’s so much birding diversity in our region.

Rewarding mid-morning visit to Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive
This visit was going to be much later than my usual early morning trips to LAWD. I wasn’t sure what I might find there at mid-morning.

Appreciating Lake Apopka’s road to recovery
The variety of birds and other wildlife that you can see at Lake Apopka is pretty amazing, especially considering its sorry state just a few years ago.

Finding ducks, other birds at Lake Apopka
I went to Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive hoping to see some early migrating warblers, but I settled for photographing some other pretty birds.

Focusing on Barn Swallows at Lake Apopka
The Barn Swallows at Lake Apopka usually hang out around a bridge where they nest. Sometimes they might sit on a railing or a nearby bush.