Larry and Molly's Big Year

  Birding Vanning Across the Unites States Part III The Route back Piping plover Tawas State Park                                                                    Birding the Heartland Of the USA Clear Creek, Magee, Tawas, Indian dunes and more on our way home. After leaving North Carolina we drove through Virginia and camped and birded at  Douthat State Park before heading towards the Great Lakes via Southern Ohio. Scarlet tanager Douthat State Park Virginia Ohio We left Virginia and drove north  through Amish land.  We were amazed by the strength of the horses leading Amish women in wagons up the steep hills.  Southern Ohio is not like the flat  Ohio along Lake Erie.  It was once described to me as the start of Appalachian mountains.  And it is th...

Bird Vanning across the United States Part 2 Fulvous whistling duck Alabama  The South including Birding in Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina After leaving Texas we birded the panhandle of Mississippi, Alabama and Northern Florida.   Throughout these states we enjoyed consistent Southern hospitality.  Being called sir and ma'am felt pretty darn good, even when you mess up.   One morning we were in a hotel.  A group of boys came down to breakfast.  As I was serving my free breakfast one of the boys said, " Excuse me, sir but you should not use the same spoon for eggs and bacon."  I told him he was right. Molly and I were impressed with the campgrounds down south including Blackwater river state park in the Florida panhandle and Dauphin Island state park in Alabama. In the evening you can grab excellent inexpensive Shrimp dishes along the Panhandle.   Blackwater River State Park ( One of several excellent panhandle campground...