After opening presents and before having dinner, I made a trip over to Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge on Christmas Day.
Afterall, this place is a wonderful gift to birders and nature-lovers. So, I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised by how many other people were visiting that day.
My Christmas Day visit included seeing Green-wing Teal ducks for the first time at MINWR, the return of Black Skimmers and spending some entertaining moments with a couple of Reddish Egrets…