Vacation Home Rental in Florida: Come to Birder’s Paradise

The subtropical climate of Captiva and Sanibel Islands is ideal for birds and bird watchers alike. Our feathered friends are plentiful here year-round, except for a short lull in October.

Vacation home rental Florida The Roseate Spoonbill is just one of the beautiful Florida birds you can see on Sanibel and Captiva Islands.

HOT SPOTS FOR VIEWING:

• In 2013, Peter Greenburg, America’s foremost travel expert, listed the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge in his top five recommended spots for a bird watching spring break vacation. Its “Wildlife Drive” it is a paved one-way road that scoots between two tidal areas where tall wading birds come to feed. Winter visitors should come here early in the morning when Roseate Spoonbills and White Ibis, to name a couple, are fishing the most.
• Don’t neglect the interior wetlands, habitat of Red-shouldered Hawks and Pileated Woodpeckers. The Center Tract at the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) has excellent trails for bird watchers. It’s best to come early morning or around sunset. While you’re there you can learn about their Snowy Plover Project.
• Lighthouse point is where migrating birds congregate in the trees. Come early in the morning for the incredible visual, and auditory, display.

During the winter months, SCCF collaborates with the Sanibel-Captiva Audubon Society to offer birding tours on Foundation Preserves that are not normally open to the public. Visit their website for more information about this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Visitors are asked to help keep the shores of Captiva and Sanibel Islands bird-friendly by staying away from staked nest enclosures, adhering to the leash law, keeping the sands garbage-free, and filling in holes in the sand where chicks could get trapped. Also, hand-feeding of wild birds is prohibited—this includes the gulls, no matter how much they beg!

A vacation home rental in Florida would be the ideal home base for any flock of bird watchers.

Reserve Sea Oats Luxury Estate on the aviary heaven that is Captiva Island, and you and your family (or you and the members of your birding club) are all set for a full week of uninterrupted bird watching.

Your luxury nest at Sea Oats includes 9 bedrooms with 9 baths, a fully outfitted chef’s kitchen, a boat dock that overlooks Roosevelt Channel, and a swimming pool to lounge in between bird watching ventures.

Contact us today to speak with one of our planning specialists and start designing your vacation in birder’s paradise.